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From: Denc 🗡
Stick to bean counting… However, if you are asking because of a viral internet trend claiming that adding a comma to your password will "break" a hacker's spreadsheet or disrupt a data breach (by messing up comma-separated values, or CSV, files), that advice is a myth: • Passwords are hashed, not stored as text: Secure websites do not store your actual password in a plain-text database. They store a cryptographic hash (like an SHA-256 string). If a database leaks, attackers get a list of scrambled characters, not your literal password with the comma intact. • CSV files handle punctuation properly: Even if raw text data is exported into a CSV format, proper database tools automatically wrap text fields in double quotes or escape internal punctuation so they don't break columns. • Attackers use advanced parsing: Threat actors processing massive data dumps use automated scripts, SQL, or JSON formats that handle special characters without issue.

Current Thread	Author	Time
Always put a comma (,) in your passwords. If they ever end up in a data leak, it ... [more]	Hamsterwheel	17:08:43
>> Stick to bean counting…...[more]	Denc 🗡	17:35:30
>> Works if the comma is written in red crayon 🖍️	Hamsterwheel	17:46:52

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