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  • behindthesailboats@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Right, So I actually did something similar. On some version of windows I noticed that ctrl-backspace was adding another character to the password, instead of deleting it. So I included it in my password. Then I updated to a new version of windows and got locked out since they updated the password backend to where it would actually delete the password instead of a adding the character, so I had no way of typing out my password. Ended up just nuking the computer.

  • Neato@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Is this anything that a simple admin password reset wouldn’t fix? It’s not like admins can see your passwords anyways. (if the system is even remotely competent)

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    1 year ago

    Doing that to annoy devs who didn’t sanitize their database inputs is like walking along parking lot just to see if anyone has forgotten to lock their car, just to put a post it in the steering wheel.

    • daw_germany@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Nah man, not sanitizing Inputs could pose serious security risks as someone could use this shit to escape and run arbitrary database queries potentially leaking passwords or other info or just wiping it (Afa I have learnt on the internet)