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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by acobster on Thursday September 08, 2016 @10:12AM (#12453156)
My bank limits passwords to ten chars. Ten!

Have you ever heard any reasoning behind why they do this? The "best" excuse I've heard is so that customers don't forget. As if they don't have a "Forgot password?" link right there.

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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by kasparsklavins on Friday September 09, 2016 @08:57AM (#12461700)
When I forget my banks password, I have to go to the closest client centre. Ironically, the only time I've had to do that is when my password was truncated.
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Re:The Correct Way to Validate Email Addresses by tssva on Thursday September 08, 2016 @11:13AM (#12453750)
Because somewhere they have a decades old legacy system that can't handle more than 10 characters.
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