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And Schwab. The password restrictions on Schwab are a complete and utter disgrace to best practices in security.
by coherentpony 10y ago
And Schwab. The password restrictions on Schwab are a complete and utter disgrace to best practices in security.
- jdeibele 10y agoCan't agree with this strongly enough. At Schwab I'm using 31 characters randomly generated by LastPass for a login name but they limit things to 8 characters for a password. Absolutely crazy. Even if they are not having problems, why should customers like us have to worry about it?
- mazg3 10y agoFWIW, they lifted some of the restrictions in Aug 2015: http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/client_home/password_format http://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/client_home/password_for... Between now allowing very long passwords, the free 2 factor token (hardware symantec vip, not SMS based), and being able to lock your accounts with a voice password/passphrase that you must give the rep to discuss your account on the phone (so then just SSN/mothers maiden name/birthdate isn't enough), I think they've pulled quite far ahead lately. It's better than any of the other banks I've used. [Note: voice password is not their voice fingerprint sillyness their reps will think you are asking about at first]
- coherentpony 10y agoOh that's awesome, I didn't know they'd improved. Good on them!
- adharmad 10y agoFidelity as well