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Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?

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[–] akilou 62 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I had to make an account the other day with the absolute worst password requirements I've ever seen:

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When I was working on a password system a few years ago, I found some amazingly bad password requirements. One that stuck with me was it couldn't contain any two digit years (e.g. 08).

I'll also leave this here: https://dumbpasswordrules.com/sites-list/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

That sounds like a rule from The Password Game

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