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McGill will double your password if you don’t do i...
> never, ever again think that doubling a password is a proper way to fix a security issue, ever...
I don't think that's it, I think it's just to annoy people into changing it.
jasonj79
on Nov 19, 2014
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I wondered the same, but I'm not sure that doubling my password would annoy me into changing it, especially when the password was previously capped at 8 characters.
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I don't think that's it, I think it's just to annoy people into changing it.