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miorel

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miorel··on Why your password can’t have symbols—or be longer than 16 characters

  A third user thought the length limit suggested that the company may then be storing
  the password themselves rather than hashing them
This was my first thought at well, and none of the examples in the article refute it satisfactorily.

Is there any point at all to capping the maximum length? Are sites worried that if the 64-character limit is lifted, 64+ character passwords will become common, leading to a bad user experience?

miorel··on Ask HN: need recommendation on payment solution / gateway
Stripe?
miorel··on Ask HN: What kind of companies are willing to deal with "eccentric" workers?
Is this a hypothetical question? What kind of demands/exceptions are we talking about here?
miorel··on Why does your API still use HTTP Basic Auth?
The proper response should be to expire the insecurely-sent passwords.
miorel··on Evil Code Competition
$200 seems like a rather small prize.
miorel··on Show HN: April Fool's Pranks
I was expecting your link to be a rickroll.