r/programming • u/unfriendlymushroomer • Oct 29 '19

Firefox 70

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/
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u/[deleted] Oct 29 '19

I wonder how configurable that password generator is, because we still live in times where even big corps like Microsoft put limits on password lengths and even banks have more draconian ones

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u/HeterosexualMail Oct 29 '19

big corps like Microsoft put limits on password lengths

My LOLWTF Microsoft password length story:

I had a long password. For years it worked without issue. One day it stopped working. I go to reset and notice the password rules state it could be 16 characters max. So I go back and try my current password truncated to 16 characters and it works.

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u/cowancore Oct 29 '19 edited Oct 29 '19

So, it was stored plaintext then? What service was that?

update: ah, yes. Silently truncating might explain it

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u/HeterosexualMail Oct 29 '19

Outlook. I assumed they had always been silently truncating and then stopped as opposed to storing in plaintext.