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?

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    29 days ago

    I understood what you meant, it doesn’t change my answer though

    The back-end environment could have at least a few ways to screw things up if, for example, they were passing the password thru a shell script to hash it and had poor sanitization of the input

    !, #, and $ can be particular troublemakers at the start of a string, there’s probably more I’m not aware of too.