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What is it with websites restricting passwords to 8 - 16 characters? Is there some technical limitation to their system?? (lemmy.ca)
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It's infuriating to create a "strong password" with letters, numbers, upper and lowercase, symbols, and non-repeating text... but it has to be only 8 to 16 characters long.

That's not a "strong" password, random characters or not.

Is there a limitation that somehow prevents these sites from allowing more than 16 characters?

I'm talking government websites, not just forums. It seems crazy to me.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because the requirement was to allow user names, the dev asked what the limit should be, the PM said, “I don’t care, make it 1000”, and so the dev did it.

Source: I’ve been working in software far too fucking long.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That's some malicious compliance right there! 😂