2013-12-19 16:29:05.94209+00 by Dan Lyke 2 comments
Irony: you can't register to apply for a career at the NSA if your password exceeds 12 characters. http://pic.twitter.com/CfiUHkQzcP
I need to make sure that Flutterby doesn't have a length limit on passwords, because the back-end sure doesn't. And if your back-end does, it's an indication that you're doing security terribly horribly wrong.
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#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-19 17:29:36.198774+00 by: meuon [edit history]
I gave seen several systems that take long passwords, and only the first 8 or 10 characters matter.
#Comment Re: made: 2013-12-19 17:49:08.721773+00 by: Dan Lyke
Gack. That falls under the "terribly horribly wrong" rubric. And I say that as the proprietor of a web site that asks you to submit a password over unencrypted HTTP...