Re: Ebay hacked

From	Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: Ebay hacked
Date	2014-05-26 17:07 +1000
Message-ID	<bug7grFua32U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <slrnlns7m5.scb.g.kreme@amelia.local> <vg3oayn5gh3.fsf@coffee.modeemi.fi> <llqipl$59h$1@dont-email.me> <budrskFf0vtU2@mid.individual.net> <slrnlo5pej.196k.g.kreme@amelia.local>

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On 26/05/2014 4:57 PM, Lewis wrote:
> In message <budrskFf0vtU2@mid.individual.net>
>    Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> wrote:
>> On 25/05/2014 2:53 AM, Rich wrote:
>
>>>
>>>     "Spaces and certain symbols (< >[ ]//) are not allowed in password."
>>>
>>> A properly designed password storage (using a hashing function such as
>>> bcrypt or scrypt) does not care what symbols are in the password.
>>>
>>> Caring about specific symbols in the password implies they are not
>>> following proper password storage models.
>>>
>
>> I wonder where the restriction is enforced - both on the client and at
>> the server, or just in the client? How many here would be surprised if
>> it were the latter?
>
> Are you suggesting that web browsers don't allow certain characters in
> text input fields? I've never encountered that in any browser.
>

No. But Javascript can be used to impose such a restriction, though it 
obviously doesn't prevent the user from modifying the script so as to 
send a supposedly prohibited character to the server.

I'd like to think that no developer would be so naive as to rely on 
client side validation, but if I did think so, the evidence would show 
me to be wrong.

Sylvia

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  Re: Ebay hacked RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-05-22 13:35 +0000
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            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:37 +1000
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                Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 16:55 +1000
                Re: Ebay hacked Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-05-26 18:42 +0200
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        Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-25 19:36 +1000
          Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-25 14:00 +0000
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            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:03 +1000
              Re: Ebay hacked Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-05-26 13:17 +0000
                Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-27 15:18 +1000
          Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-26 06:57 +0000
            Re: Ebay hacked Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2014-05-26 17:07 +1000
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              Re: Ebay hacked Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2014-05-27 05:53 +0000
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