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?

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    179 months ago

    I used to have to use a government-run website that required passwords to be exactly 8 characters

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      59 months ago

      How about a bank app that requires 6 numbers password (not the app PIN, but the user account’s password).

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      49 months ago

      A lot of older systems I worked on had password requirement of exactly 7 characters, no special characters, no numbers and no upper case. Must have been interesting times in security when those systems were made.