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> How many scripts continue to prohibit apostrophes in passwords because there used no way to reliably instruct devs on how to handle apostrophes in strings?

Thankfully this problem was solved back in 2004/2005, but unfortunately shitty code was already pervasive and the “right way” wasn’t heavily communicated enough.



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