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1. PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect (phoneboy@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 07:38:16 JST PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect

   Because I had forgotten the password to my WiFi router, I had to factory reset it. When I tried to enter the same password I had previously, it was rejected because it contained a space. Considering I entered this passphrase before and it worked, one can only assume some middle manager at Belkin decided it was ok to require passwords NOT to include spaces.

   Funny, I no longer have space for Belkin (or Linksys) products in my life.

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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 07:39:28 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @PhoneBoy that's pretty shit, are you implying an update suddenly caused your password to stop working, instead of just validating the password, it ended up also validating it at the normal entry, causing the password to become invalid?
   • PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect (phoneboy@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 07:44:21 JST PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect

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     • cool_boy_mew

     @coolboymew I had to do a factory reset, which meant I had to re-enter everything. I tried to use the same password as before, which I assume was entered under an earlier firmware version. It was no longer accepted when it was accepted before.

     It worked just fine, it's just the UI that blocks it now, probably for some bullshit "lazy security" reason...

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   • PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect (phoneboy@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 08:12:50 JST PhoneBoy of The Lotus Effect

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Heil_Honkler

     Right, which is why I am replacing the router because good luck getting Belkin to "fix" this problem.

     @Heil_Honkler @coolboymew

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   • Heil_Honkler (heil_honkler@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 08:12:51 JST Heil_Honkler

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     • cool_boy_mew
     kinda makes it a pain for anyone that likes to use security phrases instead of just a pwd. I mean using something like "there are four lights no really there are only four" is considerably more secure vs brute force than your standard 8-12 character pwd.
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