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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by ars on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @10:12PM (#8628012)
> never, ever again think that doubling a password is a proper way to fix a security issue, ever...

I don't think that's it, I think it's just to annoy people into changing it.

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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by jasonj79 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @07:28AM (#8629607)
I wondered the same, but I'm not sure that doubling my password would annoy me into changing it, especially when the password was previously capped at 8 characters.
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