Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?
Last week, I tried to register for a service and was really surprised by a password limit of 16 characters. Why on earth yould you impose such strict limits? Never heard of correct horse battery staple?
A prominent Australian bank has these requirements:
For Internet Banking, your password must be six to eight characters long.
To improve security, it should:
contain both numbers and letters.
include upper and lower-case letters (your password is case sensitive).
8 character max means they’re running it on a mainframe I think, though I don’t know enough about mainframes to know if this is a normal level of bad or really bad
Could be (probably still is) running COBOL. It’s a combination of “if it works and costs money to upgrade, why change” but mostly “if we migrate one thing it will break five other things”.
8??? For banking? I haven’t used less than like 16 in at least 5, maybe 10 years. Jeez.