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.
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