if your password system requires you to use a specific subset of characters then it is, for no reason, not as secure as it could be

if it requires you to use a specific subset of characters *because of backend reasons* then that's even worse

this post brought to you by paypal not letting you use spaces in your password

also did you know the amazon.jobs change-your-password form lets you put spaces but the actual password field on the login form doesn't

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(bonus ux fail: the page didn't tell me the password requirements until *after* i had entered an invalid password)

@typhlosion I am reminded of the time the Chase website that wouldn't let me use GPHP8E^Y_$*klfblrst9g4 as a password because it contains the letter "G" twice and therefore is clearly less secure than a good strong password like "P4s$w0rd."

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