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PSN Single-Letter Username Glitch: What Actually Broke (thecybersecguru.com)
submitted 18 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) by UnLocoPoco@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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PSN briefly allowed users to claim single-letter Online IDs like A, B, X, and Z, even though Sony’s public username rules require 3–16 characters. It looks less like a planned feature and more like a validation failure somewhere in PSN’s identity stack, showing why client-side checks are never enough and why all platforms need consistent server-side validation across APIs, account services, and databases.

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[–] orclev@lemmy.world 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

and why ~~old~~ all platforms need consistent server-side validation across APIs, account services, and databases

FTFY.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 7 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I once registered a Subway account without a gender simply by modifying the registration form as the only validation was marking that input field mandatory in the HTML.
You couldn't actually use it as it would crash the app if you did as it couldn't handle the gender of the user being null :)

[–] Illogicalbit@lemmy.world 4 points 11 hours ago

Little Bobby Tables?