Originally published at: This guy made a diabolical form to send spammers to password purgatory | Boing Boing
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… but how deep does the rabbit hole go?
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Considering that the kinds of people who run spam scams aren’t the sharpest knives in the drawer, it could go pretty deep.
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Password must contain the meaning of life, the universe, and everything.
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Jeanyuss!!!
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I gave up, but is there ever a way to insert a valid password? I kinda got stuck on the bobcat one - do they want a model number, a genus or the name of a famous bobcat?
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Clever use of one of the more infuriating features of poor website design.
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I predict he’ll be inundated with more attempts by bots than by humans.
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I put “bobcat” as is and got to “password must be a palindrome”. Which, since I can’t see it, is going to be hard to manufacture at this point. Well played
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The better way to do this is to try to get the spammer to make the password. Then insist on adding extra character types gradually (it must have one number then it must have a number and a special character like +!?) Once the mark does that then the next stage would be, insisting on a syntax like, “special characters must appear before and the number in your password.” Then once they pass a certain number of attempt send them to a fake image identification task that fails a couple of times. Then that is when you spring the “Please write cat as the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th character in the password.” And so on.
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Is this another bun alert?
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This actually is a service to humanity
Except so many corporate password policies are a bit like this
Plus photo “I actually am a human” tests
I mean what’s a crosswalk? Is it that stalky movement you make when you’re angry for some reason
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You know what would make this just a tiny bit better? If, when, the password is accepted - early in the process, before the cat and dog suggestions, I think - they are asked to confirm the password.
And of course it shouldn’t ever match.
They could even get fancy and have the eye-icon to reveal the password to confirm they match and at that point have it throw in an extra space or letter dynamically. And of course when you let go of the eye-icon, or click to fix the typo, it hide the letters again, so they’d never likely not realise it’s not themselves that making the mistake.
I bet he could stretch out the amount of time for ages longer.
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