One way this happened to me was because the ” choose password” page silently truncated too long passwords. The login page didn’t truncate.
this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2025
366 points (97.4% liked)
Memes
12457 readers
1951 users here now
Post memes here.
A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.
An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.
- Wait at least 2 months before reposting
- No explicitly political content (about political figures, political events, elections and so on), !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca can be better place for that
- Use NSFW marking accordingly
Laittakaa meemejä tänne.
- Odota ainakin 2 kuukautta ennen meemin postaamista uudelleen
- Ei selkeän poliittista sisältöä (poliitikoista, poliittisista tapahtumista, vaaleista jne) parempi paikka esim. !politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
- Merkitse K18-sisältö tarpeen mukaan
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
That's been the most frustrating thing about using a password manager. I set the random generator pretty high and have to reset and decrease it randomly until the login works.
When the shitty site dose not allow half the special characters in the generated password...
That means they've updated their password requirements and your new one is now rejected, or they reject passwords of a certain age or with a lack of account activity.
I'm pretty sure it was because the password was compromised. That's what I've heard for a decade now.
They better not know whether the old password matches their new password requirements, as all they should have is the salted hash of the password, which reveals no information about the password on its own.
Well, that's best practices but that's definitely not always implemented lmao
I hate poorly made security/identity systems in general, but by far the worst is poorly made 2FA.
No, I'm not giving you my number; and if using your site requires it, I'm probably giving up using your site. Ask my email and I'll provide my burner account.
That's because you've been rate limited trying passwords for an hour. When an attacker is randomly trying incorrect passwords, even the correct password will be rejected. Otherwise the protection wouldn't be very useful.
Had a convo with someone a while back:
Bug report: “The ‘reset password’ form doesn’t show an error if you try to reset an account that doesn’t exist.”
Me: “That would be a security risk. Closed.”
Them: “What? How? You have to click the link in the email before it does anything.”
Me: “Try putting in a bogus email on the login screen. See how it says ‘wrong email/password combination’, and not ‘no such account’? If we tell the user whether we recognize a given email, we’re basically providing attackers a list of users they can try passwords for.”
But then there would be no harm in just stating the rate limit :(
And why keep hashes (I fucking hope so) of old passwords?
To be able to display this error message and force you to use a different password, that way you won't remember it.
They keep multiple old passwords. You've done this whole stick before and you tried to use that same password last time. You use it for everything, and every time your new account gets "hacked." You keep using that password even when we show you that it's been in multiple leeks and is associated with your email.
"But I like the password, it's my favourite football team!"
Not so fun, fun fact. Google does not let you re-use the last 100 passwords.
Bruh I never wanted to log in just to use your system. Just let me use "password".
There's few things more violently infuriating than being told that.... You fucking told me it was the wrong password in the first place for fuck sake, I only have 3 fucking password variants I use, but noooo you need a brand new, never before used by any human ever, password. Fuck you web developers!
I only have 3 fucking password variants I use
I used to live that life. It’s a dangerous one. Consider a password manager.
Relevant Tom Carty
I've always thought that the best password security possible would be to always have the real password fail a few times. People who know their password will keep trying it, someone else will try a different one. It's a variation of not giving an error that tells what failed.
I used to spoof the login page of my campus freenet, fail the first login, store the password and then jump to the actual page. End of the day I just go around the lab harvesting.
To what end? What benefit was there in having people’s campus logins?
Can't imagine. Give me your bank login credentials and I'll let you know.
This is delightfully evil
Your hatred is steaming beans?
My hatred usually corns beef.
I'm more pissed that they are keeping all my old passwords... So when they get leaked, they all get leaked. Meanwhile, all our phones have cameras but we can't have them take a pic on the wrong pin entered because why? No logic in Emailing the picture to you. That's just silly.
In theory they could be only storing the hash and using that to determine if you reused an old one
This is what’s happening, if they’re even a little bit good at their jobs.