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[–] [email protected] 64 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Don't forget to have hidden password requirements and secretly truncate any password longer than 12 characters.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago

Well yeah, if you don’t truncate the password to 12 chars how will you fit the plaintext in a memory efficient fixed latin1 CHAR column that only accepts letters, numbers, and underscores

/s

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Battle.net used to not be case-sensitive for passwords, back in like the pre-wow era.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Intresting. At least they got their act together, even making a physical totp authenticator in the 2000s.