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Your bank stores passwords in plain text, but then they never email it to you.
by hm2k 15y ago
Your bank stores passwords in plain text, but then they never email it to you.
- feydr 15y agosome do like discover.com (unfortuantely) truncates your password at 8 characters, downcases, and sends you in plain txt email
- gst 15y agoThat's what I don't understand about banks. On 99% of all websites I can use special characters in my passwords. The only exception are my online banking sites, where I'm forced to restrict myself to [\d\w] one one of the sites and to [\d] on the other site.
- dennisgorelik 15y agoGovernment's security regulations that banks must follow make banks less agile. That in turn make banks security system weaker. These are unfortunate unintended consequences.