There was an iPhone user who got locked out of his device because the pin pad Unicode changed and one of the characters he used was no longer available. I forget what language he used, I want to say Serbian but am likely misremembering that.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an "s" with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn't part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an "s" with a cedilla.
I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.
As an IT guy who have sat through start up wizards on iOS thousands of times on every iPhone since the 5S, you are absolutely right, the last few iPhone models have really made the setup wizard a terrible and bloated experience.
To whoever at Apple decided that the eSIM setup should come after the Apple ID screen, go take a barefoot walk on LEGO and think about what you did!
To be fair, ř is 2 bytes so technically the password is twice as long (but with maybe just 1 bit of entropy added? Entropy is annoying to wrap my brain around)
This is very low entropy anyway, because it lacks randomness. Taking all western characters and repeating them 32+ times is a piece of cake. Even with proper brute-force protection, that would probably work out (for a targeted attack 100% anyway).
It is like having a (literal) key as your password - with a limited set of shapes (character) it can have and a discrete lenght you can just guess.
For those very rare times where I am going to have to remember a password, it's often just one of my kids' first names, but with the first consonant repeated 42 times
It's a fuckton of entropy and I can remember it tripping balls
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There was an iPhone user who got locked out of his device because the pin pad Unicode changed and one of the characters he used was no longer available. I forget what language he used, I want to say Serbian but am likely misremembering that.
I'm going to hazard a guess that it might be Romanian. Romanian has the letter ș, which is an "s" with a comma beneath. Wikipedia. It wasn't part of the Unicode standard until 3.0, so people used ş, which is an "s" with a cedilla.
I have the modern Romanian keyboard on my phone, so I can easily type ș, but not ş. I can see how that would have broken during the changeover to Unicode 3.0.
I think you are correct about it being Romanian, because I think it was an s character. I tried looking for the article so I was not going off memory.
I have to assume it's the cyrillic alphabet, surely apple isnt so stupid they manage to mess up the unicode of latin characters?
I'm just gonna stop you right there..
It's a marketing and design company with delusions of competence with regards to most other things it does.
As an IT guy who have sat through start up wizards on iOS thousands of times on every iPhone since the 5S, you are absolutely right, the last few iPhone models have really made the setup wizard a terrible and bloated experience.
To whoever at Apple decided that the eSIM setup should come after the Apple ID screen, go take a barefoot walk on LEGO and think about what you did!
Would it have been so catastrophic? lol
Could have gone to just about any big store and gotten a cheap keyboard.
To be fair, ř is 2 bytes so technically the password is twice as long (but with maybe just 1 bit of entropy added? Entropy is annoying to wrap my brain around)
This is very low entropy anyway, because it lacks randomness. Taking all western characters and repeating them 32+ times is a piece of cake. Even with proper brute-force protection, that would probably work out (for a targeted attack 100% anyway).
It is like having a (literal) key as your password - with a limited set of shapes (character) it can have and a discrete lenght you can just guess.
What if I add 1! to the end
For those very rare times where I am going to have to remember a password, it's often just one of my kids' first names, but with the first consonant repeated 42 times
It's a fuckton of entropy and I can remember it tripping balls
Thanks. Nice emails you got there. I can't believe there are so many unread! How do you live like this?
kinda depends on the hackers nationality
I didn't know if this this true because I don't deal with char sets much but I love it