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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 34 points 1 year ago

worst i've seen is 8 characters. precisely 8 characters, no more no less........ it was for a bank ....

[-] dwemthy@lemdro.id 16 points 1 year ago

A major US bank that I used to use has case insensitive passwords, found that out one day when I noticed caps lock was on after logging in with no trouble

[-] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

Early 2000s internet banking was a trip.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

i think this was about a year ago when they changed it....

[-] Revan343@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ha. I had the same thing, with a government-run student loan website

[-] Donkter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The fact that it was a power of 2 makes me suspect lazy coding. That bank didn't pay its programmers well enough.

[-] lseif@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

maybe they store the entire password as a u64 and bitmask out each character

[-] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

No no, not 8 characters, 8 numerical characters!

[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

Whoa whoa whoa, did you use two of the same number in a row? Insecure!

[-] proton_lynx@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Is that a sequence? No way, José!

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago

I had to make a 10 character password for Santander

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