14 DAY TRIAL // Most sites don't allow you to use obscene or offensive user names, some don't want you using obscenities in comments or posts, but few would prevent you from using profane passwords. Except AT&T, it seems.
On the company's password reset page, AT&T instructs users not to use their IDs or common words as passwords. So far, nothing out of the ordinary. But it informs users that passwords can't contain obscene language.
That's strange on several levels, but the biggest question is why AT&T would want to do this. In practice, no one should be able to see or know your password except you.
All passwords are saved in an encrypted form and AT&T shouldn't ever ask you for your password. So why does it matter whether you use obscenities in passwords or not?
Well, it turns out that it doesn't actually, even if its online form says so. AT&T prevents people from using common words as passwords and among those common words are some obscenities, but that's it, there's no other restriction on the password you use.
The online form, it seems, was a mistake that should be remedied soon.