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That's such a strange UI. I couldn't tell you the fifth letter of most words without writing them down, let alone that of my 20 character passwords.
by waltbosz 8y ago
That's such a strange UI. I couldn't tell you the fifth letter of most words without writing them down, let alone that of my 20 character passwords.
- ajuc 8y agoYou just spell it in your mind going through all the letters and only press keys where asked. I'm recently switched from a bank that uses regular passwords to a bank that uses partial passwords, and it took me a week or so to get used to this, and it is a little slower (takes me like 10 seconds instead of 1), but it's nothing significant.
- WillPostForFood 8y ago10x worse is pretty bad, even though it is only 10 seconds total.
- fjeuplos 8y agoYou have made the assumption that everyone who uses strong passwords can remember them in their head :-)
- adwww 8y agoIt's used by almost all UK banks as well, sadly. One of my accounts (First Direct) has max length of only 8 characters.
- ithinkthimgs 8y agoThat is criminally poor. The most likely point of failure in most bank accounts nowadays is not the bank, it's the online banking portal. 8 characters is stupidly poor for potentially complete access to your bank account. I hope they insist you use one of those card readers too.