4 ms·
Are you sure that isn't the case for Amex as well? I recall being forced to use a very particular set of legal characters when defining my password for use with
by bob1029 3y ago
Are you sure that isn't the case for Amex as well? I recall being forced to use a very particular set of legal characters when defining my password for use with Amex online account services. The exact same constraints I have with several other financial institutions.
I suspect that somewhere in the heart of the beast there still lurks an IBM-branded system of record.
Just because a machine from the 90s is running the database doesn't mean you can't put a webGL frontend on top of it.
- cempaka 3y agoI used to write for a service that submitted transactions to AmexDirect. It's still done in EBCDIC, an encoding which famously led to a lawsuit against a European bank by a customer who couldn't create an account with his real name.