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what was I thinking? (Christian Frichot’s ad-lib on security and what-not)

This is a great article on a flaw in how aol.com handles passwords whereby the site would truncate passwords down to 8 characters.

Reminded me a bit of how the good ol’ Microsoft LM Hash worked.


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