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Unfortunately some crappy site is going to thwart such an effort. "bzzz! you can only use 12 chars in your password" or "you have to use a symbol/uppercase letter" or some other lunacy. le sigh


And that site will more than likely be your bank to boot.


I have a feeling that some old bank software has fixed size fields and that's we get ridiculous maximum lengths on bank passwords.




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