Case sensitive?


Earlier I accidentally had my caps-lock button on (Its my mute microphone button on TeamSpeak), and I had still been able to log onto my account; I then told my friend about this and he logged in with caps-lock on aswell.

Why is this possible? Shouldnt it be better to have it case-sensitive? Im struggling to find a good reason for this.
Just a hunch, but maybe if Blizzard included a case-sensitive password system, account hacking would be less present?

Say my password was "meGAwIn", instead of a hacker using a piece of system to find that exact password, all he or she would have to find would be "megawin". Seems pretty weird to me.

Then again, Im not a Blizzard Employee, so they may have some good reason for it.
31/12/2010 6:44 PMPosted by Evocake
31/12/2010 6:44 PMPosted by EvocakeThis is a thing long known to me. It isnt problem just in the game, but also on the forum. It seems that whatever you type, its transformed to lower/upper case and then checked if the password is correct.

Considering general password policies (at least one non-alphanumeric character, at least two different alphanumeric characters with different case and at least one number; with some minimum password length) this is a bit weird to me as well.

Not to mention that there are default characters that Blizzard doesnt support (period [.] for example).

Is there any specific reason for all of this?
 

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