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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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[โ€“] Rhaedas@fedia.io 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Could be (probably still is) running COBOL. It's a combination of "if it works and costs money to upgrade, why change" but mostly "if we migrate one thing it will break five other things".

[โ€“] smeg@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

Yep, that sounds like old bank tech to me