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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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[–] SSJMarx@lemm.ee 27 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

similarly:

make a new account

use password manager to generate a strong random password

"your password must contain at least one special character (! @ # $ % ^ or &)"

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I hate that, why can't I use something like £ or Ł?

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