alt Hacker News>When a password of 9 or more characters is sent, their buffer is over-run, and it allows you to log in.
Man, computers used to be fun
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nubinetwork • today at 12:02 AM
Unix crypt only accepted 8 characters and ignored the rest. If your password was 123456789, it was considered the same as 12345678a.
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saadn92 • yesterday at 11:50 PM
Yep, now everything is done through agents unfortunately.
It really was a fun time. I remember sitting in a coffee shop just sniffing WiFi traffic.
A friend was a reporter for the local paper and interviewed the mayor. I turned my laptop around and showed my friend the mayors imap password. Just right there floating through the air.