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Is there any legitimate technical reason that some web sites forbid special characters in passwords?

Asked by hoist2k (99points) February 17th, 2010

I understand that sites have a minimum length requirement, and others require at least 1 number and/or a capital letter. But occasionally I come across a site that RESTRICTS you from using any special characters such as #$%^. Is there a legitimately good reason why they would do that?

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