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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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[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 2 years 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".

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