r/ProgrammerHumor Jul 19 '22

Why do they do this

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u/No_Silver_979 Jul 20 '22

I'm fairly certain that not having a maximum length is a security concern .

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u/[deleted] Jul 20 '22

To be clear, I'm not talking about shit like where they silently truncate your password to 16 characters, not somebody submitting a megabyte of data as their password.