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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?

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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"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.