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yahoo is even worse. I went to change my password from a very easily guessable one to a not as guessable one. Once I figured out a password which fit their stupid requirements (if my password is >20 chars I don't think it having an upper or lower case is going to be the kicker) the site told me I had successfully changed my password. When I went to log in however it would not let me log in.

Turns out yahoo had silently truncated my password down to 24 letters. No indication that this had been done, it was really only through trial and error (I had a feeling something was up, and my password isn't too much more then 24) that I figured it out.



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