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Amazon.com password system flaw means ‘close’ is good enough

Posted on January 29, 2011 by

“Almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades,” says the old saying, but it appears that close is good enough for some Amazon.com passwords. A flaw in Amazon.com’s password validation system is allowing password entries that are close, but not exactly a match, to be used to log in to some customers’ accounts.

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