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		byoung2 on July 22, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Texas Attorney General Password Rules The EXACTLY 8 characters worries me, because it suggests that they are storing the password in plaintext in an 8 character column.

titusjohnson on July 22, 2014 [–]

Probably stored in 9, 8-character columns, labeled "last_password_1", "last_password_2", etc, given #10.

steve_g on July 22, 2014 | [–]

One 72 character column. Why make it complicated!

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