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submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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[-] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

ADD FIELD PASSWORD VARCHAR(16)

[-] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "$name" OR password = "$password"

[-] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
sqlquery = "INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('" + username + "', '" + password + "')"

What could go wrong?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Password=a");drop table users;--

Alas, it's longer than 16 characters. Protection works!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

They often don't allow semicolons but it's never stopped me from checking

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