I just signed up to enable Microsoft webmaster tools for this site and while doing so encountered an interesting error message with regard to password length –
I must say this surprises me greatly though to be fair this isn’t the first time I have come across this problem. I have previously liaised with other companies service desks to get password length limitations removed, especially those that don’t offer multi-factor authentication.
Tools such as LastPass allow us to auto-generate very long complex passwords and while these are by no means the best option (multi-factor will always trump them) it’s better than something short and easy to guess.