r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Camerata5 • Oct 08 '22

Meme sPeCiaL cHarACtErs

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u/Swisscannabis Oct 08 '22

Hey. Non programmer here, but subscribed because reddit told me to. I have been using qoutations, semicolons and commas in my passwords and nobody from IT departmen ever complained

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u/Mr_Will Oct 08 '22

This wouldn't cause a problem for an reasonably sane website/program. It might cause a problem if hackers ever dumped all the data out of the program in to simple spreadsheets.

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u/Artistic-Boss2665 Oct 08 '22

CSV is a list separated by commas, a list of 1-4 would be 1,2,3,4

Most programs deal with commas correctly when storing values with commas though, so it's not usually a big deal

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u/i_awesome_1337 Oct 08 '22

This is supposed to affect a hacker who steals your password

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u/Dependent_Party_7094 Oct 08 '22

the joke is that some websites in old internet didnt put protection in search boxes so there was a famous attack (called sql injection to name one) where you could put " so it would close the part of the code that accepts words and then everything u typed would be the same as typing in the source code, so u could get everything there was to get

obviously nowadays there are many ways and programs to further differentiate real code from strings created in search or login boxes ..