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by impostervt 4152 days ago
+ password can't be longer than 20 chars :\ Signing up gets you "limited access". Full access is $19/month.
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kgrin 4152 days ago
Err... what's a plausible reason passwords would be restricted to 20 chars, other than being stored in plaintext in a char(20) field?
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0942v8653 4152 days ago
Making sure you can't DDoS by sending gigabyte passwords for the server to hash. Of course 20 is seriously … overprotective.
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mgkimsal 4152 days ago
Pretty sure nothing's stopping me from sending a gig of data to their server anyway.
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0942v8653 4152 days ago
No, but hashing is much more intensive than just receiving it.
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