Password Purgatory, a C# Scammer Trap

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

This is a reimagined version of Troy Hunt’s Password Purgatory ; written as a dotnet app and automatically published to Azure. It is not a 1:1 recreation of Troy’s, but maintains its spirit, see all the source code on GitHub at dotnet-password-purgatory

Just imagine, thousands of dollars is only a button click away, but your password keeps failing because of with the following rules:

- First entry form seems normal, some standard client-side validation to make sure I complete both fields.
- Okay, so I didn’t have a number in my password…
- Whoops, maybe I shouldn’t have just jammed a “1” on the end of the password…
- Ugh, okay, an upper-case character (starting to feel annoyed).
- This seems my own fault, nothing lets you use short password anymore.
- Wait, what? This is starting to seem like I’m being given the run-around… but adding ‘dog’ to the end is easy enough…
- Really, cat? Okay, three letters, lets add it and keep going because I want to see where this is going.

If they keep going…

Automating Dependabot Pull Requests

Thu, 15 Jan 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Most of us are familiar with Dependabot and how it can open an Issue in your GitHub repo when there’s a pending dependency update or a security issue. However, did you know that you can also have it automatically open a Pull Request, do all the builds, make sure checks pass, and merge it, too?

I find this capability very helpful and time saving when the dependencies are not core SDK components. Particualrly with node.js projects, there are can be a lot of updates that are not related directly to the code, but instead of part of the toolchain or IDE. These updates take time to manually do and can be annoying to maintain.

Automation on DVLUP

Password Purgatory, a C# Scammer Trap

Automating Dependabot Pull Requests