FUCK YOU TURNITIN.COM

Is there any reason FOR AN UPPER LIMIT TO YOUR PASSWORD!?

And if your wondering, my password would have been heyTurnItInDOTcomDevsYOUcanSODoffEXCLAMATIONpoint

If I had to take a guess, my thought is that it probably has to do with balancing security against the odds a user will forget (and therefore have to reset) a longer password.

Not the best choice from a security perspective, but if your system is so weak as to allow brute force guessing, you have other problems.

Well, you can always paste in some ascii art as password...

https://arstechnica.com/security/...
In short there is an issue of DOSing the server if you have too long of a password (since it takes more time/CPU to hash long passwords) the problem is that the lengths they are talking about is larger than 4K passwords so I think they took that recommendation a bit too far :)

@Kaji this seems more to me like a company trying to save precious disk space by limiting the length of entries into the database. (Hey, I didn't say they were smart for doing it)

@Letmecode you never know how stupid people can be ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯

@Letmecode
I wouldn't be surprised.

Because VARCHAR(12)

@Letmecode

Yeah, now days online education tools (at least in America) are written by five year olds.

There is always something going wrong. Take HoltMcdougal (or whatever it's called) for example, their online textbook system is the worst. After viewing ~3-5 pages, it just breaks or something without actually telling you. So I'm doing my math homework and I suddenly can't go to the next page because "it does not exist" then after a few seconds it prints the ENTIRE Java script code to the dom.

This is why QA exists.

@Letmecode oh and you MUST use internet explorer or net scape to view it.
Thank God for user-agent switchers on chrome.