Comment: Re:Prior art (myself -1980 ) (Score 1) 201
Are you sure you're not 12 now?
Sorry, just basing off your idiot punctuation and most obvious sense of naivete and "'leetness".
+ - AOL's Embarassing Password Woes
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An anonymous reader writes "AOL.com users may think they have up to sixteen characters to use as a password, but they'd be wrong, thanks to this security artifact detailed by The Washington Post's Security Fix blog:
"Well, it turns out that when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL's system, however, doesn't read past the first eight characters."
This means that a user who uses "password123" or any other obvious eight-character password with random numbers on the end is in effect using just that lame eight-character password."