It’s not the 90s anymore.
Comment on Security expert reveals surprising way to make your password stronger: use emojis
lemmyvore@feddit.nl 1 year agoIt’s not the processing on the server that’s the problem. To reach the server the password needs to go through several layers of character encoding, if any of them fails the server will receive something different from what you meant. And when you try to login from another device and the layers will be different you’ll effectively be sending a different password.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
That is very much not a 90s problem. Especially if the company has a website and an app or is a small company not thinking about these things.
In theory this shouldn’t be an issue but it definitely could be an issue on certain services.
ricecake@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
The same character encoding that would break emoji would break a significant portion of the words names, so if your system can’t handle it, then you deserve all the trouble that you run into.
Unicode isn’t that hard.
Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 year ago
You’re not wrong, but some systems, especially smaller ones are intended for English-only situations (or originally were) so non-English language situations might not be as well tested and/or may cause things to break.
Remember there are some sites that still refuse service if you put a
"in your password. I’m not saying it’s right, but it’s a definite possibility.