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submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world

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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[-] smeg@feddit.uk 10 points 3 months ago

8 character max means they're running it on a mainframe I think, though I don't know enough about mainframes to know if this is a normal level of bad or really bad

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 3 months ago

Could be (probably still is) running COBOL. It's a combination of "if it works and costs money to upgrade, why change" but mostly "if we migrate one thing it will break five other things".

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 3 months ago

Yep, that sounds like old bank tech to me

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