Optimum online password
Who conned Optimum into limiting their passwords to 8 characters? Does it really take up that much more CPU to validate a longer one or that much hard disk space to store it? Why does this issue still persist on highly trafficked consumer facing websites?
It could mean one of two things:
- The password field in the database is only 8 characters wide. But, that would also mean that the password is store in clear text.
- Optimum made the decision to save users from hurting themselves. Someone from their information/systems architecture group: "Oh noes I can't remember passwords longer than 8 characters, so I bet nobody else can either."
Whip that person.
