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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 06:40:43 JST nixCraft 🐧

   My bank: “your password is too long, please choose a new password.”

   Should never be an error message, ever.

   • charlesesmith (charlesesmith@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 06:45:26 JST charlesesmith

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     @nixCraft Those bytes are expensive.

   • Alex, just zis guy, you know? (alexmorse@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 07:05:48 JST Alex, just zis guy, you know?

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     @nixCraft it took me 10 minutes the other day to figure out why I couldn't create an account somewhere, it was because my password was too long

   • Kaito (kaito02@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 10:43:24 JST Kaito

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     @nixCraft What do you mean my 1-million-character password is too long?

   • 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦 (methylcobalamin@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 11:29:37 JST 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 🐧 🥦

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     @nixCraft

     I've had that experience.

   • Austin Lund (aplund@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 11:31:05 JST Austin Lund

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     @nixCraft I once had a message telling me not to use unicode characters. That very much limits your options.

   • maisylover (benjamincodes@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 14:48:09 JST maisylover

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     @nixCraft I actually encode all my files into very long strings, and use those strings as passwords on websites with no password length limit. It takes nearly an hour to login, but I get free unlimited file storage!

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 14:56:05 JST Fubaroque

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     @nixCraft It suggests that they don’t use a hash to store your password. 🤮 #redflag

   • Daniel (helmet91@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Nov-2023 15:11:04 JST Daniel

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     @nixCraft for my Microsoft account in 2018, I couldn't set a password longer than 16 characters. I was surprised even back then. Luckily it's not the case anymore. But damnit, I know Microsoft is incredibly incapable, but to _this_ extent? Crazy.

   • UlyssesZhan (ulysseszhan@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 04:20:38 JST UlyssesZhan

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     @nixCraft My bank does not even allow me to include special characters in the password.

   • Arthur (averseabfun@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Nov-2023 06:13:09 JST Arthur

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     @nixCraft especially not from a BANK