Password cannot contain Q or Z

Question

I saw this interesting page on JetBlue's help pages. It says the following:

Passwords:

(Typical password restrictions).

Cannot contain a Q or Z

Why would they not allow specific characters in their passwords? Does it have something to the way passwords are hashed?

The earlier question on Security.SE has a good accepted answer. This one should probably be closed. — Rory Alsop, May 14, 2014 at 11:45
It is a duplicate, but on a different site... How do mods handle that? — Anubian Noob, May 16, 2014 at 0:27

Ruslan Gerasimov · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-14 04:16:01Z

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Archaic holdover - probably that's why, look at the picture: enter image description here

answered May 14, 2014 at 4:16

Ruslan Gerasimov

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What even is that thing?
– stib
May 14, 2014 at 6:11
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Good question stib - it looks a bit like a phone but instead of the mouthpiece being a trumpet into the wall box, they appear to have developed a combined mouthpiece/earpiece to make this more portable. The wonders of modern technological advances eh!
– Rory Alsop
May 14, 2014 at 11:44

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