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Why Limit the Format of a Password?
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joshtronic
on Sept 2, 2013
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ProNoob13
on Sept 2, 2013
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I'm pretty sure it's so they don't have to quote the input before they run it through through their form regex to see if it's not malicious (XSS) user input.
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