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What is your favourite password rule?

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

"Sorry, this password is too long"

Literally gotten this error before. So annoying. It was like 18 characters.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

That could either mean they want to limit DDOS traffic caused by absurd long passwords, but unlikely.
Or they store your passwords in plain text instead of a proper hash value in their way to small fields in database.

A more absurd possibility would be if they limit characters because they send the form by GET instead of POST and everybody could see your password in the URL (e.g. in all logs).
Security nightmare in any case.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

I had one site limit my password to 8 characters long

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

That's the worst. I already made a meme about it last week.