Humpty Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 A reader wrote in Friday with an interesting observation: When he went to access his AOL.com account, he accidentally entered an extra character at the end of his password. But that didn't stop him from entering his account. Curious, the reader tried adding multiple alphanumeric sequences after his password, and each time it logged him in successfully. It turns out that when someone signs up for an AOL.com account, the user appears to be allowed to enter up to a 16-character password. AOL's system, however, doesn't read past the first eight characters. Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted May 11, 2007 Moderators Share Posted May 11, 2007 Could AOL suck any worse? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 Just tried it and its right. Also, just noticed, if you enter an completely incorrect password it brings up a window asking you to enter it again and doesn't let you enter more letters than the passwords length, meaning you can find out the length of a persons password easily. Probably also a bad idea security wise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted May 11, 2007 Moderators Share Posted May 11, 2007 If your still using aol email I feel bad for you. AOL users drop that crap and get something better: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogi...mp;ltmplcache=2 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDPower Posted May 11, 2007 Share Posted May 11, 2007 If your still using aol email I feel bad for you. AOL users drop that crap and get something better: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogi...mp;ltmplcache=2 http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/thunderbird/ I tried Thunderbird a while back and didn't really get on with it. Been meaning to give it another try, along with GAIM/Pidgin, so I can access my AOL mail and IMs without actually using AOL itself. Just haven't got round to it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted May 12, 2007 Moderators Share Posted May 12, 2007 This new version of thunderbird is fantastic. Much cleaner interface and the tagging features are awesome. Gaim is 10000000000 times better then AOL's program. No ads, optional spellchecking, can be logged into aim msn yahoo all at the same time. There is just nothing better out there. (Some like trillian I guess. I didn't. ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1200 Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 AOl-So ridiculus. I think I like Pidgy better then Trillian too! Nlite Tutorial, Wireless Security Tutorial Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X2Core Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 AOL sucks :l Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LuLu Posted May 12, 2007 Share Posted May 12, 2007 AOL sucks :l Yes, yes it does. I'm here. What are your other two wishes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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