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Fri 25th Apr 01:22 2008: Security by enforcing 8-character passwords (not longer!)

Password security, data safety - A government perspective


So I entered the first eight characters of my password, which was a true work of prose for their standards, at around 20 characters. And it worked.
Now, for bonus points: What do we gather from the fact that the long password works fine in one system, but in another system it only the short version? Why, but of course! I guess the passwords for every economically active Mexican is stored in their master database in plain text. Isn't it just beautiful?

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