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Re:Ebay posts every character a user types into the password... by michaelt on Wednesday June 29, 2016 @09:54AM (#12001611)
Perhaps their algorithm isn't written in javascript?

Or perhaps they want to check the user's password choice against a multilingual dictionary, and they decided to save the user the multi-megabyte download?

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