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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by S_A_P on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @07:50AM (#11721227)
A few years ago I discovered that the wells-Fargo website would log you in by typing the correct password and some additional n characters after the password. I reported it to the security group and that still worked until I stopped banking with them a year or so later.
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Re:“My wife has complained that OpenOffice will never print ... by xiix on Wednesday May 18, 2016 @12:43PM (#11723240)
I've heard of systems like these, which would essentially store passwords as n-length strings, and upon registration/verification simply truncate the given string to n characters.
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