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?

  • grue@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    0
    ·
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    “correct horse battery staple” is for your password manager password. The regular passwords for services should be random character gibberish.

    Edit: to be clear, though, I’m not excusing their failure to allow >16 characters of gibberish.