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Old Feb 27, 2014 | 9:20 am
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FinnishFlash
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Originally Posted by aaupgrade
Had them email me my password and it was identical to my password, but all in upper case.
Did they really e-mail you your password?

Reason for all being upper case is probably because their database where passwords are stored is case-insensitive, ie when they pull up your data, it's all in upper-case and when you log in the case doesn't seem to matter at all. Any case seems to be ok as long as you enter right characters.

E: RogerD408 actually told all this already but still, I think it's a breach of security to not store, and use, passwords with case-sensitivity.

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