@Xavier @darkuncle I’m really having trouble with this. The extraneous apostrophe makes me twitch.
@josh @darkuncle @Xavier that also messes with the CSV files, especially if you also use double-quotes
@josh @darkuncle @Xavier came here to post this. I literally died when I noticed it.
@Xavier Tell the hackers to use parquet instead.
@Xavier try not adding apostrophes to your plurals
@zaivala My high ass didn't even notice that last night. Not my meme.
@zaivala @Xavier i flinch whenever i see “the 80’s”…which happens nigh daily 😣
@cultdev @Xavier
Pluralizing numbers looks wrong however you do it. But I do it right anyhow.
@Xavier And LOTS of quotation marks
@Xavier now I’m wondering how many sites can’t accept a ‘ , “ or \ in a password.

@Xavier And quotation marks (U+0022), in pairs around commas. Thank me later.

",secret"",,","""word"

@andy @Xavier I'm sure this is a shitpost but in case anyone took it seriously, fair warning that the above post is instructing you to find a workaround to that hack, so as to ensure that your password would work in one of these CSVs
@Xavier this is excellent advice!
Obligatory xkcd reference: https://images.app.goo.gl/V7BnDK9fBgNQK21w7
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@Xavier or semicolons to mess with SQL tables?
@Xavier I'm quietly grumbling about how this relies on the fact that *nobody* follows the spec for CSV files, and whenever I have to work around that, they are always too far away to slap and too paying-customery to yell at.
@log Guess we need to create a new standard.
#xkcd
https://xkcd.com/927/
Standards

xkcd
@Xavier Ooh, might start including "DROP TABLE" in my passwords!
@Xavier security prejection
@Xavier Plurals do not take apostrophes.
@Xavier Alas, the CVS file format specifies that commas can be quoted to preserve them in the data. Dumping to CVS automatically does this. Otherwise it would never work for any kind of data that contained commas.
@hoco @Xavier the CVS file format specifies that all data be printed out on a paper roll with 2-3 coupons between each row.
@xurble @Xavier I could edit to correct my gaffe, but I'd rather enjoy your humor. :-)
@Xavier Do they allow EOF and that sort of stuff? LOL

@Xavier

Makes you think, why some websites don't allow commas in passwords.

#meme #infosec

@smiddi @Xavier I think it's safe to consider websites with such limitations as insecure and not very trustworthy.

@smiddi @Xavier Side note: just 2 years ago, I used the 'forgot password' function of a smaller Telco provider. They *emailed* it to me in *cleartext*.
My assumption is that many of the sites that impose character limits on pwd text fields do so for easier clear text storage in their database.

Discussed this with a responsible person and only got shrugging shoulders.

@oraculix

Automatically generated mail, or did someone copy and paste it per hand? Bonus: out of an excel sheet.

🥲

@Xavier

@smiddi @Xavier All of the above would be awful.
OK, the bonus would be awfuller 😉
AFAIK it was generated.
@Xavier @zens
I hear the eicar test file is also fun
@Xavier HOOOOOOOLY shit.
even if it's assuming the use os CSV file, it's a great idea. I'm actually gonna find the most popular cell separators out there to maximize the effectiveness.
@Xavier @huibert Not to disclose too much about my passwords' habits, but I might not only add a comma but also a semicolon 😅