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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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[-] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

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

[-] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago

pain text

Accidentally accurate

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