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I ran into a website for work that would let you create a long password, but silently truncate it to 12 characters before saving. Mind boggling.
by sgc 3mo ago
I ran into a website for work that would let you create a long password, but silently truncate it to 12 characters before saving. Mind boggling.
- halJordan 3mo agoThis is the best. Especially when the password is being autotyped by the pw manager and so you never see the truncation and now have a bad pw saved in your manager. Alongside a restrictive password policy with no ui explaining what the policy is.
- j4k3 3mo agoThis happens on some HP printers too, the web interface lets you happily enter lengthy passwords, but doesn't bother telling you it truncated the entry at 16 or 12 characters.
- grg0 3mo agoBlizzard/battle.net used to do this (still does?), lol
- pull_my_finger 3mo agoI unfortunately had the infuriating experience dealing with a (government, of course) site that did this. To add to the experience, not only did it silently truncate at registration, but it did NOT truncate on the login fields. And of course, it has a lockout after several failed attempts. UX gore at it's finest.
- ornornor 3mo agoHappened to me a few times. And then your password never works and you can’t understand why.