When I was a teenager I wrote a simple visual basic app to globally detect the letter 'e' and immediately send a [backspace] to whatever application the user was working in.<p>It was a background app and named something like system32.exe which I installed on my girlfriends computer.<p>The frustration she endured while trying to write an essay for school was next level. I faked trying to help her :D She eventually resorted to copy and pasting 'e' every time she needed one.<p>For the record, 18 years later she's my wife so she did eventually see the humor in it.
This seems to be just a support thread with two comments? Was kinda expecting a full bug explanation or something with a bit more substance as to why this is happening beyond 'it's just very odd'.
This must be to prevent users from using "password" as the password (and instead making them use the less likely to be guessed "assword", assuming of course that the attacker doesn't have a HP computer).
Read the comment from the other user who chimed in with the same issue: it occurs in other obscured password boxes as well, has the problem typing 'p' either with physical keyboard or onscreen keyboard, but accepts 'p' input via copy and paste. If this is really an accurate bug description that is a doozy!
I absolutely loathe those condescending corporate fluff responses "Welcome! I understand you're having issue with x, try doing y and z, all the best!"<p>So much bullshit in one paragraph, why aren't they trained to type like human beings?
I had a similar problem with Belkin Wemo smart plugs. They didn’t reject a specific letter but some passwords just didn’t work so I had to create a separate SSID and then trial and error a password that would work. Never figured out what the issue was.
Something similar has happened to me. When it has happened to me I press each modifier key (shift, alt, ctrl, FN, win, menu, etc...) and it usually fixes the problem.
I’ve got a Neato vacuum that won’t keep a connection because my wifi key contains an asterisk. All other devices are fine, but the Neato will routinely disconnect after several hours.<p>This led me down a rabbit hole to first set up a virtual SSID (which worked but impacted apparent throughput), and then a separate AP for low-bandwidth IoT devices.<p>I don’t have the time in my life to raise enough clout to get this addressed.