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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?

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[–] clearedtoland@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The number of government websites that I’ve encountered with this “limitation.” Even more frustrating when it’s not described upfront in the parameters or just results in an uncaught error that reloads the page with no error message.

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Or accepts and silently truncates it 🤬