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Old 03-17-2004, 01:08 PM   #7
richlevy
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Join Date: Jan 2001
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Funny story.

Many years ago, I worked for a company that designed rail/shipping computer systems. One of our clients was very concerned about customers using expletives as passwords, so they requested that we come up with a method of preventing certain words from being used as a password.

I don't think anyone took the project very seriously, so instead of parsing for 'bad words', someone created a table of any of the 'seven dirty words' and their derivatives, including combinations, that could fit into 8 characters and created a searchable table.

I wasn't there for the project, but I stumbled across the table doing maintenance. It had somewhere around two hundred entries.

Once in a while, I would look it up and refer to it if the situation warranted it.

P.S. No, I didn't save a f***g copy.
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