Who the fuck thought a max password length of 10 characters was a good idea

Seems okay

(The joke is that its exactly 10 characters)

My bank thought that a 7 character max was a good idea, i don't know why i trust them with my money ....

@ItsNotMyFault My bank uses a security question and a 6 number password to login. Letters arent allowed.

I don't get it.

2048 is long enough? 😋

At least it is Max 7 or 10 char, we have 8 char password, not 7 not 9, reason, that's the common length of various systems where passwords are synced. Wtf. (+_+)🏳️🏳️🏳️🏳️

or when ' gets blocked from being used as a character. I just leave those sites.

Work does 6 ints only, changed every 5 weeks... I would bet money my entire building is insecure and easy to guess

someone who hasnt seen the ‘correct horse battery staple’ xkcd

Probably the same guys who thought it was important to have the guidance system in the arianne 5 rocket convert from 64 bit floating point to a 16 bit integer... Stack overflow at 37 seconds flight and the rocket turned itself upside down...

@Nanos they re used the software from arianne 4... Terrible luck, as that part of the software was set to shut off at 40 seconds flight time...

Passwords shouldn't have an upper limit (apart from server limitations, where 64-255 seems like a reasonable value) since they are supposed to be hashed and salted and end up having a static length anyway.

That restriction screams of bad security practices. :)

I'd looked to sign up for home insurance recently, but when I saw their password policy was 8-10 characters, no special characters and at least 2 digits required I couldn't hit "back" fast enough.

I was also a bit suspicious when signing up for Deb Rant that there wasn't a "confirm password" option. Usually that sets alarm bells ringing too!

Some days ago i had to make a password that should contain:
1 special character minimum
1 number minimum
1 uppercase minimum
Aaand between 8 and 10 characters in full.. (8 and 10 not included)

Why do they need a max length?! Don't tell me the save passwords unhashed and DB table field type for password is varchar(10)?!

@Highwind I hope you don't have to bank online by default.

The same genius who thought no password was good for Wikipedia back in the day. At least they have a lower bound of 1 (one) character nowadays!