More reason to add to your 'America on Line or AOL is a joke' list.
When a user signs up for 'AOL' they are presented the chance to choose a password that can be up to 16 characters long. The only problem is that 'AOL's' joke of a security system doesn't read past the first eight characters. So if you enter in a password such as 'password12345678' their system is only going to read the first 8 characters of that, so it only sees 'password' and nothing else.
What angers me about this is that most people who just don't know that 'AOL' is not a good ISP provider continue to use them. They had such a 'grip' on the ISP business early on, that people may not know that they are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to ISP providers.
Wake up people!!!!
This from the Washington Post.
Read the rest after the jump.
