So, does Slashdot still have this silly restriction on characters used in passwords?
My username is taken from the message that I got when trying to use a forbidden character when selecting a password for Slashdot.
Certainly possible, but I'm not sure. My slashdot password is frightfully insecure... mostly because I've got basically nothing riding on it.
There's no financial data here, I'm not sending/receiving emails or other communication with known associates... worst case scenario, my account gets hacked and the karma of a 7-digit UID gets smeared. It's also risk management. If someone does hack /., learns my PW here, and somehow tracks this account back to an account I care about (bank, email, amazon, etc) the passwords aren't even remotely in the same ballpark...
That was my point. I don't care if silly fun sites like /. use weak PW restrictions. Sure, in a perfect world every site would allow every possible password... but in this imperfect world, I'm primarily concerned about banking sites that balk at complex passwords.