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Windows' authentication 'flaw' exposed in detail

Daggerchild Silver badge

Re: Well, Ain't that dandy!

"But it doesn't. Not to Windows, not to OSX, not to any common Linux distribution"

This argument is old and dusty, and where one was argued the other was argued, and yes, Windows most certainly did this, as my GMT dual-boot Linux repeatedly attested.

Yesterday I *genuinely* caught someone accidentally changing something to use an O instead of a 0. They were annoyed. Why does it matter?!

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