I can’t say who it is, but their name begins with ‘M’ and ends in ‘cAfee.’
Whoever the company is, we have to assume it’s not a security company. Because, surely, none of those would do that ever.
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drewcarreyfan@lemm.ee 1 day agoI am a designer, but I once did a project with a very very major and recognizable tech corporation that, no joke, implemented an 8 character limit on passwords for storage reasons.
This company made in the tune of tens of billions of dollars per year, and they were penny-pinching on literal bytes of data.
I can’t say who it is, but their name begins with ‘M’ and ends in ‘cAfee.’
Kissaki@feddit.org 1 day ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 day ago
If password length affects storage size then something has gone very wrong. They should be hashed, not encrypted or in plaintext.