[conspire] Experian insecurity ...

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu):

> Way to go Experian insecurity <sigh>.
> Will they never learn?
> Me: picks nice secure 20 character password
> Them: "Password is too long."
> Me: ... 19 characters ...
> Them: "Password is too long."
> ...
> 16 ... too long
> 15 ... the damn registration thingy still fails anyway.

{boggle}

Wow, too bad there aren't things like multi-terabyte hard drives in this
world.  But good thing Experian doesn't handle any sensitive data.

> Yeah, still, far too many sites, etc., don't properly do/handle
> passwords/passphrases.

I love the ones where you can ask them to mail the password to you,
which means not only that they're cheerfully mailing them around in
plaintext but also storing them that way, ripe for the plucking.