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Worse, many sites -- notably banking sites -- reject secure passwords (no weird characters, no long passwords)
by Tloewald 12y ago
Worse, many sites -- notably banking sites -- reject secure passwords (no weird characters, no long passwords)
- hraedon 12y agoOne of my credit cards requires a password no longer than 16 characters, no spaces, no special characters. They're only a few more restrictions away from just requiring that it be a significant birthday or something similar.
- stusmall 12y agoWhat is worse than rejecting is I know of one major site that would, at least used to, silently truncate long passwords. That was... frustrating.
- cynwoody 12y agoI used to have an ATM card with an 8-digit PIN. When entering the PIN, I noticed the screen would flash after the fourth digit. Subsequently, I discovered I actually only needed to enter the first four. That continued until the bank got taken over by Bank of America in 2004. Suddenly, I needed to enter the whole PIN!