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		citricsquid on Feb 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Limiting passwords to 12 characters is "secure eno... The worst thing is when password boxes have paste protection so site-specific randomly generated passwords become a pain to use. A few sites have started doing it recently, it's nonsensical.

sneak on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

Thankfully good browser password manager extensions (I use 1Password) ignore all of this nonsense.

Cthulhu_ on Feb 1, 2013 | [–]

$("#input[type='password']").val("secret");

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