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jlgreco on Aug 4, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Yes, I was hacked. Hard.

The problem is that sites can truncated your password without telling you. Hard to make the call not to use a site if you don't know it is doing that.

jackmoore on Aug 4, 2012 [–]

I suppose you could attempt to log in while omitting the last character of your password to test against truncating.

jlgreco on Aug 4, 2012 | [–]

True, good point.

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