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   Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:39:14 JST Gabe Kangas
   I had a rare occurrence where I needed to manually type in a password I had in my password manager. It took me a bit to realize the password *started* with a space. I mean, I guess there’s no reason it can’t. But I thought I was going crazy when I kept typing it in wrong.
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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:39:13 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @gabek If memory serves, a number of UNIX systems would disable all cursor control on password entry, allowing passwords to consist of spaces, tabs, backspaces, deletes, page up/down, and escaped characters.

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     Kit Rhett Aultman (roadriverrail@signs.codes)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:46:58 JST Kit Rhett Aultman

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     @gabek It, and backspace, open up the opportunity for you to cheat shoulder surfers by making "oops, I messed up and had to start again" part of your actual password entry process.

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     Gabe Kangas (gabek@social.gabekangas.com)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 04:46:59 JST Gabe Kangas

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     • Kit Rhett Aultman
     @roadriverrail Delete being an actual character in your password would be awesome.