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> An old credit union I was part of in NY (SEFCU) mandated passwords with exactly 6 characters. When I complained about this I was told it was secure because th
by jackson1442 6y ago
> An old credit union I was part of in NY (SEFCU) mandated passwords with exactly 6 characters. When I complained about this I was told it was secure because they forced one of the characters to be a symbol.
For a bank?! And here I am complaining that Chase doesn't support application-based OTP. I hope you ran far far away from that CU.
- fossuser 6y agoYeah, I was in college at the time - banks often seem to have really old and not very good systems. I use Fidelity now and while it has issues, it's much better.
- tfvlrue 6y agoFunny thing about Fidelity -- if you call them to deal with an account issue, the automated phone system asks you to enter your account password using the phone keypad. And it's quite impatient (I wasn't a third of the way through my 32-character password before it gave up and transferred me straight to a representative!)
- millerm 6y agoI forgot my password for a credit union back in the day (before I started using a password manager as we all have so many online accounts now). I clicked the "Forgot password?" button... and they sent my original damn password back to me, in email. There are just so many things wrong with that. I complained, actually talked to their "technical people" and explained the awfulness of it, then moved all my money out of that credit union. They did change how it reset later, as another member had told me, but I bet they still stored the plain text password. I was seriously angry with their awful security.