Context is that I had to register for a lot of accounts recently and some of the rules really make no sense.

Not name-and-shaming, but the best one I’ve seen recently is I might have accidentally performed an XSS attack on a career portal using a 40-digit randomly generated password…

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.com
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    21 hours ago

    It happens a bit too often that I make an account somewhere with a long, generated password and then when I log in it throws errors at me.

    But a few times a website didn’t just show me an error, I got the whole crash dump including their encryption approach and versioning