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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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".
Yep, that sounds like old bank tech to me
8??? For banking? I haven’t used less than like 16 in at least 5, maybe 10 years. Jeez.