Please keep it up, I can't even write a coherent reply to this discussion because of how furious these policies make me. Its not just banks, its telcos, energy

Please keep it up, I can't even write a coherent reply to this discussion because of how furious these policies make me. Its not just banks, its telcos, energy companies, government agencies, pretty much everywhere. They all think that knowing my D.O.B and address confirms my identity. On the banks, I've never had westpac attempt this (I think,) but they do still have this bizarre 6 letter character limit to my online banking password where they just ignore any letters after 6 characters so it seems like you are secure but in fact are not very secure at all.