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    I don’t think they actually store any passwords, usually hashes are stored for better security. Of course not everyone does this so yeah thanks to Skeleton.

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    Jokes on me, the bank site doesn’t allow for special characters and has a hard limit of 10 characters.

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      I think Python csv would save that as "Pass\",\"words\",\"Are\",\"fun\",\"\\n" and then it would be read by Excel / LibreOffice / Python csv as expected.

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      A perspective from someone who red teams for a living:

      If I encounter a password like that, I’m probably going to pay special attention to your account among the millions. Commas dont stop most people from being weak to password permutations either.

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    OP thinks security researchers don’t understand how to properly serialize data for correct deserialization. OP also thinks they largely use CSV.

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    Use EICAR test strings as passwords so when the password is stored as plain text the antivirus software will delete the file.

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        Doesn’t have to be a binary file, toss the string in a txt file and the AV still throws a fit.

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      Sadly it wouldn’t work if found in a CSV file with other records:

      According to EICAR’s specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long. As a result, antiviruses are not expected to raise an alarm on some other document containing the test string

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      Unfortunately there is significant overlap between plain-text-password-servers and servers that can’t be bothered to use antivirus. Also, the string may not work if it’s not at the start of the file. AV often doesn’t process the whole file for efficiency purposes.

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        It’s not about the password on the server where you want to log in, it’s about CSV files stored on the machine of the cybercrook who wants to use the passwords to steal people’s identities.

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      According to EICAR’s specification the antivirus detects the test file only if it starts with the 68-byte test string and is not more than 128 bytes long.

      Unless you’re the only one in the dump, no :c

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      Hm, now you’re making me wonder how feasible it would be to use Emojis in my passwords…

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        Should work alright if the server handles Unicode correctly, and isn’t one of those ass sites that put restrictions on the password’s length and composition. Hashing functions don’t even care if you’re feeding them raw binary.

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          I… I hope my passwords are hashed and salted long before they reach the server, so the way it handles unicode shouldn’t affect it all that much. The logistical issue I was seeing with emojis was more that some of them look the same but have different Unicodes alltogether, so typing in the same emoji across devices might be tricky if their keyboards default to different codes.

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      CSV existed for over 30 years before RFC 4180. Excel, and countless other tools, have their own incompatible variants. Excel in particular is infamous for mangling separators when exporting to CSV.

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        Fuck Excel’s CSV handing. It differs by locale, silently. Imagine the thousands of people every year who patiently wait to import a multi-megabyte CSV from some instrument only to see garbage because their language uses the decimal comma and semicolon separator.

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      You would be surprised how many people are simply splitting the string on commas instead of using an actual ascii parser. Especially for one off scripts, like churning through a csv full of passwords.

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      yeah unless you’re dealing with some steaming pile of vibe-coded shit this is a dumb as fuck idea.

      (have seen people who don’t know how to appropriately use an LLM just let it wholly reimplement standards, read it over, and then say “oh wow that works great!” smh…)

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          of course there’s always been terrible code. people used to and still do reinvent the wheel all the time, even without the help of a robot.

          trust me i’m one of the last people to shit on LLMs unnecessarily. the tools coming out nowadays are the bees knees. i think vibe coding is fucking awesome and most people’s premonitions against it are things that, similar to the premise, have just always been true - most of the “evil” of vibe coding can be dealt with easily by being a not shit engineer in the first place.

          plus, not every problem needs to be a software development problem through and through. sometimes you just need a webui or an api to browse a dataset, for example - it’s not opsec critical and you need it now. that’s okay. the moral police won’t come to your house and arrest you for vibe coding.