• apprehensively_human@lemmy.ca
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    1 day ago

    Perhaps even worse than this is when the hash allows you to enter what you think is your full password, but as long as the first characters are a match then it will succeed.
    16 characters is probably fine as far as passwords go, but if the site is secretly truncating from 16 down to, say, 7 and still allows you to sign in, you don’t even realize that your password isn’t nearly as secure as you thought it was.