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AOL’s Password Monster will Eat Your Passwords

by admin on May.08, 2007, under Security

So AOL doesn’t really have a password monster but they will effectively eat part of your password. It turns out that even though AOL lets you put up to a 16 character password in for your AOL.com account it only reads the first 8. So if you put in password$&355# thinking that is a strong password you are actually only putting in password. If someone tries to login to your account with just password bingo they in.

Shame Shame AOL

Full Article from the Washingtonpost

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