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]
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    191 month ago

    My current employer has the dumbest restrictions for passwords to our core system. It is a large regional bank. Our core system must have a password that is either 7 or 8 characters long (nothing shorter or longer). It cannot have any vowels or special characters. It cannot have any capital letters. It cannot have two numbers in a row.

    • @davidagain
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      11 month ago

      Ah yes, the password rules from 1980.

      • @[email protected]
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        230 days ago

        Whoops. Forgot a restriction, can’t use repeating characters either so that one doesn’t work either.

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            28 days ago

            Yeah but then you gotta change it every 30 days and it can’t use any of your last 24 passwords so you can’t even cycle through 10 numbers in one spot or even two spots. So you’d have to do like “p0s0w0rd” and then do “p1s0w0rd” and so forth.

            • @Ensign_Crab
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              128 days ago

              p4s5w1rd

              p4s5w2rd

              p4s5w3rd

              When you get to p4s5w9rd, increment to p4s6w0rd, and so on.