Error'd: Two-faced

For the first Error'd of the future-facing year, we return to our most-hated pattern of every prior year. Namely, broken password mechanisms. Meanwhile, on a personal note, I'm sitting at a boarding gate behind a planeload of people who were scheduled on a flight 12 hours ago! Sure, first-world problems but hoo boy.

"I'll get on that right away" snapped longtime contributor Argle Bargle."I needed to make a helpdesk request. For some reason theythink I need to update my password. Sure, I can appreciatethat it's been a while since I've made any password change.The only catch is, I've only been with the company six months."

An anonymous reader griped "When I tried to log into AliExpress by clicking on thesign in button, it gave me the registration form eventhough an account already exists under the supplied emailaddress. The only way to sign in is to click back and thentry again or switch to the mobile view."

Rolf B. reported "Well, I don't even want an account. I only want to download the "VMware Virtual Disk Development Kit" to attempt a repair of my broken vmdk. But the download button now requires to be logged in.Btw: If you attempt to use an email with a '+' in it, the form completely crashes on the first keypress in the password field."

"You can have too much security!" declaresKarun R.

And another anonymous (ok, this one came from inside the house but shhh I won't say who) "They said "at least one special character" and provided a list. Igave them TWENTY-FOUR and still that wasn't good enough."

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