It’s 2007: Why Do Big Sites Like Digg Still Not Accept Special Characters In Their Passwords?
By Daniel Miessler on March 16th, 2007: Tagged as Passwords | Security | Technology
It’s not just Digg, but for them it’s especially unacceptable. I mean, come on….Digg? The epitome of the “new” Internet. Young, hip, and…only taking numbers and letters in their passwords? Lame.
There’s just no excuse for this in 2007. Eight years ago, sure…but not now. Let’s do this. Let’s make a list of sites that we know of that still haven’t moved out of 1999. Then we’ll email their admins and demand ask that they get with the 21st century.
Here, I’ll start:
- Digg.com