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You think that's bad? Charles Schwab Bank only allows you 8 characters for the password. No special characters either.
AMEX also has surprising restrictive passwords. Is the security surrounding password resets so bad that it's more secure to force easier to remember passwords?
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You think that's bad? Charles Schwab Bank only allows you 8 characters for the password. No special characters either.
AMEX also has surprising restrictive passwords. Is the security surrounding password resets so bad that it's more secure to force easier to remember passwords?
database containing encrypted passwords Does anyone know whether they used per-user salt?
If they're encrypted, they're reversible. Salt doesn't matter. You would think ebay would hash passwords.
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I tried this around an hour ago and can't paste, it's being explicitly blocked. Perhaps my region (UK) still uses the old password change page? For clarification, I'm using the change password function once logged in and not doing a forgotten password reset.
I'm referring to a new Bootstrappy dialog (blue and white candy buttons) available when you login from Paypal.com
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>> "PayPal went full retard." I'm not usually big on political correctness but you could so easily replace that phrase with something that's not taking the piss out of people.
I suppose I could. I was going for the "Tropic Thunder" line. But really, political correctness? Has anyone ever called an actually mentally handicapped person "retarded" in the past thirty years?
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Ebay claims that 20 characters is the max, but it's a lie - mine is 29. Likewise, Newegg claims that you have to have special characters, but my password has none. I'd suggest trying the password you want and seeing if it gets rejected. In a lot of cases, some programmer may have fixed the crazy password scheme and forgotten to update the page text.
Are you sure that your password is actually 29 characters? Try changing some of the last nine characters and see if it will still let you log in; they may just be dropping the last nine silently.