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Comment Re:Taste the rainbow tables... (Score 1) 538

by Robadob (#42825085) Attached to: Deloitte: Use a Longer Password In 2013. Seriously.
I would use longer passwords, but multiple sites like to limit passwords to arbitrary lengths like 14 and 16 (live.com and slashdot.org last time i checked). What reason is there to have any password length limit (other than arbitrary passwords of like 100kb of data) if they should be storing them as salted hashes?

Comment Re:um (Score 1) 419

by Robadob (#41563455) Attached to: The Coming Internet Video Crash
And i'm fairly sure of the main UK broadband providers i've seen adverts for BT, Virgin Media, Talk Talk and PlusNet all advertising no limit (although its quite possible there are 'fair use' t&c's). Most providers just choose to traffic shape if you go over unreasonable daily limits (with virgin media this is during peak time).

Comment Re:Slashdot has a limit to (Score 2) 497

by Robadob (#41417533) Attached to: Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You
On the topic of weird password requirements, my university has the weirdest password requirements i have come across to date (i'm assuming its due to some software they must use);

Note that passwords must follow these rules:
* must be 6, 7 or 8 characters in length
* must contain at least one numeric digit
* must NOT start with a numeric digit
* must contain only lower-case alphabetic letters and numeric digits (that is no punctuation characters).
* the first three characters of your password must not be identical
* the first three characters of your password must not equal sap or pass
* the first three characters of your password and login name must not be the same

Comment Slashdot has a limit to (Score 1) 497

by Robadob (#41417305) Attached to: Hotmail No Longer Accepts Long Passwords, Shortens Them For You
Slashdot has a password length limit, iirc its 20. The input field for setting a password has a max length of 20 however the login field doesn't. So when i last changed my password i was confused for a short while till i realised that i hadn't read the password guidelines. To be honest i find that ~50% of websites that i try to use long passwords on are limited to around 20.

Comment Re:Pointless (Score 5, Insightful) 183

by Robadob (#41318761) Attached to: Intel Demos McAfee Social Protection
The article was a bit misleading, but from watching the video its just a facebook app which blocks print screens/copy paste of images you upload through it. Doubt it will take long for tools which bypass this, and chances are the photos will stay within mcaffee social share rather than the general facebook albums, which will prevent a large number of people from using it.

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