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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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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[-] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 12 points 8 months ago

My favorite was "Your password must begin with a letter"

[-] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 18 points 8 months ago

"Otherwise our database may misinterpret it as a number when we store it in pain text"

[-] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 19 points 8 months ago

pain text

Accidentally accurate

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