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eru on Aug 11, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Xkcd Password Generator

Covering your ass by disallowing passwords like "password".

Simucal on Aug 11, 2011 [–]

No, I meant specifically why they would allow certain special characters and not others.

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