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[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 26 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Here’s my recent favorite:

  • Try to log into site
  • Tells me my password is wrong… uhh okay
  • Try to reset password by auto-filling a new one from my password manager
  • New password set successfully! Yay!
  • Try to login again… fail. Wrong password… fucking what…?
  • Realize that their password field was clipping the password length off at some max length not fucking mentioned anywhere, so I have no clue what the actual password is without trial-and-erroring, which then results in an account lockout again

I’m a programmer and this kind of blatant stupidity from massive companies pisses me off to no end. MAKE YOUR PASSWORD REQUIREMENTS CLEAR. MAKE YOUR UX CLEAR.

[–] MisterFrog@lemmy.world 11 points 17 hours ago

Maximum password lengths at anything below 64 characters grinds my gears.

Signed up for a bank account once that limited you to 12 characters. 12. And you could only chose from like 4 special characters.

No 2FA. No no. But the customer service agent pointed out they require you to also use a 6 digit second password!

That's a 18 digit password where 6 of them must be numbers.

Absolute travesty.

[–] d00phy@lemmy.world 11 points 22 hours ago
  • Doesn't show password requirements until after first attempt is rejected
  • Password expiration w/o any alert
  • Arbitrary password length requirements (specifically max length)
  • Arbitrary character requirements (particularly disallowing or only allowing a certain subset of special characters)
  • Only offering SMS as "2FA"
  • Using email "2FA" on every. Login. Attempt. And offering no real 2FA alternative.

All of these are reasons I will look to move my business to a competitor.