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I´m more concerned with the fact that it only stores the first eight characters. Does anyone know if this is common? I often use very long password strings that begin with something simple... like I may use the first line of a song (e.g. myformerhopesarefledmyterrornowbegins). I figured that it was exponentially harder to crack a longer password so I never bothered with diverse characters and capitalization.

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