Lyle Seaman’s Error'd entry for The Daily WTF, published on 2026-10-02, brings together several failures involving password policies. An anonymous reader submitted a case labelled “Speciaal passwords”. The supplied password met all five requirements shown in green, but the form rejected it. The article gives no indication of where that policy originated.

Other examples show conflicting guidance. Michael R. points out that Handy is the German word for a mobile phone, called a cell phone in US English. Sacha R. describes Oracle Fusion applications displaying password requirements during a manual reset without showing the rules that actually determine acceptance. Matthew S. calls another example evasive. One commenter suspects that an ampersand is forbidden, while another questions whether the form accepts at least letters or numbers.

A final anonymous reader reports that registration succeeded only after every special character was removed from the password. The column treats the incident as a combination of translation trouble and poor software design.