Shardis - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Prior art (myself -1980 ) (Score 1) 201

by Shardis on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @02:19PM (#27067165) Attached to: Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss

Are you sure you're not 12 now?

Sorry, just basing off your idiot punctuation and most obvious sense of naivete and "'leetness".

Submission + - AOL's Embarassing Password Woes

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 06, 2007 @09:07AM

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.

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