How on earth can you both not accept the password I copied from my password safe and tell me that I cannot use the same pasaword again?
this post was submitted on 10 Jan 2025
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They're lying about the issue and don't trust that you're who you say you are. It's security systems 101. If you give informative error messages, they can be used to reverse engineer the password of accounts. So every error is going to be "incorrect password"
Sounds like security by obscurity to me. Works, but rarely the best solution.
That part is possible:
The rest of your comment is just bad. I doubt you even manage to keep that information secret, much less get a positive value out of the entire machination.