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Re:Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elepha... by dangero on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @02:28PM (#12131326)
Man that's bad. Enforcing password policies at sign-in seems like a terribly flawed idea.
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Re:Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elepha... by nitrogen on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @03:56PM (#12131954)
It can also happen if the API call to create the user on the other system is asynchronous and/or not checked for errors, and the API enforces the same (differing) password policy.
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Re:Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elepha... by hafreni on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @07:00PM (#12133180)
I wish password policies would be standardized, but then we'd have something like this happen: https://xkcd.com/927/
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