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There's so many cases of that. So many cases, it's the typicallest thing the first thing a clever kid who sees a glitch--supposing he's a good kid, I was--want
by daniel-cussen 4y ago
There's so many cases of that. So many cases, it's the typicallest thing the first thing a clever kid who sees a glitch--supposing he's a good kid, I was--wants to do is tell the people who made it to make it better. It happened to me with Banco Estado, we were two OK remarkably smart guys but still, we were just shooting the shit on the subway none of this secret conversation on Signal business, and I said: hey Chilean banks have tiny tiny passwords, like pitiful. Might as well be one digit, like in the Little Rascals when the kid dressed up like an adult is asked for his bank number, he says "seven". Then tries "8". From the computer perspective, it is one digit.
And we spent one minute joking how trivial it would be to rob the bank, but since then I just felt bad. It's the only account you can get for free in Chile, without a monthly fee and compound interest on that fee, and then collections out to fuck you. It means employers can look at their employees accounts during negotiations, brute force those four digits, and everything's unsafe, nah...it's basically due to the disgrace of Chilean education, just got plundered to pay for the expensive torture/rape apparatus, and to keep the poor and middle-class Chileans down. And secondly, to cut down on call center costs, that's why even Banco BICE, a really hot shit bank, has an embarrassingly low maximum limit on password length. I told an Indian about it, a IIT graduate, about this maximum he said "minimum. 8 character minimum." I corrected him, "no, maximum. I made it as long as I could."