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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Tell me about it. USAA has a password policy of "between 8 and 12 characters."
Like, that's not even secure under old understandings of secure. A max of 12 should be, like, an actual offense with sanctions attached if they get hacked at some point. Especially for a financial institution. Ridiculous.
Definitely used a one-off password for that one...
I have to change my USAA password every few months because I forget about the 12 character restriction...
12charactersis 12 characters long