{"id":17663,"date":"2009-07-02T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2009\/07\/02\/you-can-use-a-coke-slogan-as-your-password-but-not-a-pepsi-one\/"},"modified":"2009-07-02T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T10:00:00","slug":"you-can-use-a-coke-slogan-as-your-password-but-not-a-pepsi-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20090702-00\/?p=17663","title":{"rendered":"You can use a Coke slogan as your password, but not a Pepsi one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/\"> Larry Osterman<\/a> mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/larryosterman\/archive\/2008\/06\/03\/news-flash-spaces-are-legal-characters-in-both-filenames-and-passwords.aspx\"> News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords<\/a>, I was reminded of my own little experiment with passwords and spaces.\n Over a decade ago, I tried using spaces in my password, and they were accepted, but I ran into a different problem: Brand name bias.<\/p>\n<p> The password system accepted &#8220;Coke adds life&#8221; as my password, but it rejected &#8220;Pepsi the choice of a new generation&#8221;. Why did the password system accept a Coke slogan but not a Pepsi one? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/technet\/archive\/community\/columns\/security\/askus\/au042400.mspx\"> Hint<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Larry Osterman mentioned News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords, I was reminded of my own little experiment with passwords and spaces. Over a decade ago, I tried using spaces in my password, and they were accepted, but I ran into a different problem: Brand name bias. The password system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-17663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-tipssupport"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When Larry Osterman mentioned News Flash: Spaces are legal characters in both filenames and passwords, I was reminded of my own little experiment with passwords and spaces. Over a decade ago, I tried using spaces in my password, and they were accepted, but I ran into a different problem: Brand name bias. The password system [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}