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Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters"

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From Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address>
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Subject Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters"
Date Fri, 22 Jan 2016 11:13:32 +1100
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On 22/01/2016 4:59 AM, Scott Alfter wrote:
> In article <dfo8stFbv96U1@mid.individual.net>,

> What's worse than that, though, is a password field with a length limit
> (especially an absurdly low limit like 8-12 characters).  That they're
> imposing a length limit on passwords implies that they're storing passwords
> directly (DANGER WILL ROBINSON!), not hashing them and storing the hashes.
> I prefer to let KeePass generate 24-32 characters of gibberish to use as a
> password.

I've raised that exact issue with a couple of organisations. Never got a 
response, though.

Sylvia.

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"Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-14 11:36 +1100
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-14 00:57 +0000
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" BartC <bc@freeuk.com> - 2016-01-14 01:33 +0000
    Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-14 02:30 +0000
      Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-17 16:39 +0100
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Kees Nuyt <k.nuyt@nospam.demon.nl> - 2016-01-18 01:20 +0100
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-01-13 21:12 -0500
  Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2016-01-21 17:59 +0000
    Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 11:13 +1100
      Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2016-01-22 00:47 +0000
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Sylvia Else <sylvia@not.at.this.address> - 2016-01-22 13:54 +1100
        Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-01-22 23:02 +0000
          Re: "Please limit your message to 500 characters" Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2016-01-29 10:22 +0100

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