(title added by mod for lemmy community)


(Originally published earlier today on thecanadian.social)

  • Bappity
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    338 months ago

    I suppose at least it doesn’t have a maximum chars limit. I’m always dumbfounded and pissed off at sites that have those

    • @Downcount
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      278 months ago

      I found sites with max characters of 8.

      OF EIGHT!

      • the_weez
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        118 months ago

        I’m pretty sure there’s some old mainframe that doesn’t support more than 8, maybe older AS400 or something like that. Could be the reason.

      • Bappity
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        58 months ago

        WHAT THE FUCK

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      8 months ago

      US government sites are the worst about this. They’ll have some arbitrary set of rules like

      1. Must be exactly 6 characters
      2. Must use a letter, a special character, and an Egyptian hieroglyph
      3. Must not use the characters *(/2€÷
      4. Must use exactly one of the following characters _6]>
      5. Must start with a number and end with a vowel

      Like, dude… These are sites that have ALL of your information, and they’re managed by complete idiots.

    • @0110010001100010
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      158 months ago

      It’s even worse when you have one that doesn’t tell you there is a max and just randomly truncates after a specific number of characters. I can’t remember which site did that to me recently. I had to reset my password like 4 times before I figured WTF was going on.

      • Bappity
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        68 months ago

        WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCKKKKKK

        • @Spiralvortexisalie
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          28 months ago

          It feels like something more from a decade or two ago then now, but my pet peeve was when websites would merge or link and now your suddenly too long password only works for some of the portals or cause various issues. Iirc correctly the hashes would be equivalent regardless of length making the maximum limitation/truncation even more infuriating.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 months ago

        I have that with a newspaper subscription. Password needs to be 16 characters or less, but it allows you to set it, it just doesn’t work. Every time I need to change it I forget about that and have a new randomly generated 20+ character password, only to once again become frustrated with not being able to log in. I want to strangle the idiot that came up with this madness.

    • JackGreenEarth
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      38 months ago

      Android has one of those. It’s really annoying that my own device, which blocks me from accessing files the name of security, doesn’t allow me to have a stronger length password. And no, I can’t install a custom ROM or root my phone, as my manafacturer thought me having root access to the device I own is ‘insecure’. But apparently having a short password isn’t.