Tickyboom thing

I just found the most bizarre code comment ever in one of the files on the site I’m currently working on.
/*Not sure what this does but if you comment it out the little tickyboom thing stops ticking and goes boom.*/
I honestly have absolutely no idea what that’s supposed to mean, or what it’s referring to. [...]

Insecurity features

I’m surprised I haven’t written about this before, actually, since it’s something that really bugs me and I see it happening more and more.
The amount of sites out there which insist on checking that passwords match /^[a-zA-Z0-9]$/ and exclude all other characters astounds me.  There’s no better way to make passwords easily crackable than limiting [...]