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Password length requirement (feddit.org)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by cron@feddit.org to c/cybersecuritymemes@lemmy.world
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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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[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

ADD FIELD PASSWORD VARCHAR(16)

[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago

SELECT * FROM users WHERE name = "$name" OR password = "$password"

[–] cron@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children) 
sqlquery = "INSERT INTO users (username, password) VALUES ('" + username + "', '" + password + "')"

What could go wrong?

[–] Gremour@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Password=a");drop table users;--

Alas, it's longer than 16 characters. Protection works!

[–] _bcron@midwest.social 5 points 2 months ago

They often don't allow semicolons but it's never stopped me from checking

[–] dsilverz@thelemmy.club 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

John O'neill always wonder why there are all these strange computer errors around him when he is about to sign up something. Oh, John O'neill, poor guy...