Reply to post: "some consumer-focused sites do get it right on password security"

Many UK ecommerce sites allow ‘password’ for logins – report

Graham Marsden
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"some consumer-focused sites do get it right on password security"

And some, mentioning no names *cough* UPS *cough* require an upper case letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special character *and* require it must be between 8 and 15 characters.

Why the hell do they need a 15 character maximum? The days of limited storage space are long gone, so if I want to use a password of "Somewhereovertherainbowwayuphigh!1" why should I not be allowed to do so because they're using an obsolete password model?

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