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]OP
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    1 month ago
    sqlquery = "INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('" + username + "', '" + password + "')"
    

    What could go wrong?

    • @Gremour
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      Password=a");drop table users;–

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

    • Daemon Silverstein
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      31 month ago

      John O’neill always wonder why there are all these strange computer errors around him when he is about to sign up something. Oh, John O’neill, poor guy…