It’s 2007: Why Do Big Sites Like Digg Still Not Accept Special Characters In Their Passwords?

By Daniel Miessler on March 16th, 2007: Tagged as Passwords | Security | Technology

It’s not just Digg, but for them it’s especially unacceptable. I mean, come on….Digg? The epitome of the “new” Internet. Young, hip, and…only taking numbers and letters in their passwords? Lame.

digg_password

There’s just no excuse for this in 2007. Eight years ago, sure…but not now. Let’s do this. Let’s make a list of sites that we know of that still haven’t moved out of 1999. Then we’ll email their admins and ~~demand~~ ask that they get with the 21st century.

Here, I’ll start:

Digg.com

Comments

jdog

suntrust.com

yes, a bank won't let you use special characters. and they have strict password length restrictions. eaaaasyyyy

brad

I have a BIG one....
Chase Bank. I have a Chase Platinum card and I can not have special characters in my password. I actually canceled in today in favor of another (USAA) card. That was the primary factor. Please let me know if you post to their admins.