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AOL's absurdly bad password system

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security, madness, passwords

Issues apparently include:

  • Passwords truncated to the first 8 characters
  • Non-alphanumeric characters stripped
  • Stored encrypted (not hashed) in the Windows registry

And various Unix flavours have similar default behaviour?!

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