Honesty's the best (security) policy
Honesty's the best (security) policy
(title added by mod for lemmy community)
(Originally published earlier today on thecanadian.social)
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It could have cost them nothing to increase the laughable 6 chars minimum limit.
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I suppose at least it doesn’t have a maximum chars limit. I’m always dumbfounded and pissed off at sites that have those
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I found sites with max characters of 8.
OF EIGHT!
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US government sites are the worst about this. They’ll have some arbitrary set of rules like
- Must be exactly 6 characters
- Must use a letter, a special character, and an Egyptian hieroglyph
- Must not use the characters (/2€÷
- Must use exactly one of the following characters 6]
- Must start with a number and end with a vowel
Like, dude… These are sites that have ALL of your information, and they’re managed by complete idiots.
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It’s even worse when you have one that doesn’t tell you there is a max and just randomly truncates after a specific number of characters. I can’t remember which site did that to me recently. I had to reset my password like 4 times before I figured WTF was going on.
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Android has one of those. It’s really annoying that my own device, which blocks me from accessing files the name of security, doesn’t allow me to have a stronger length password. And no, I can’t install a custom ROM or root my phone, as my manafacturer thought me having root access to the device I own is ‘insecure’. But apparently having a short password isn’t.
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Microsoft didn’t allow setting a password longer than 16 characters until 2019, I think.
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6 character when the current year is only 4 characters long. They really want me to think about it huh.