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My bank enforces a six character limit and the passwords aren't even case sensitive. But, brace yourself to feel safe - they make me answer a security question (in this case, "What high school did you go to?"

They made a (record) four billion dollar profit last year, so this strikes me as security designed by someone with an MBA and a spreadsheet. I'd be upset, but, I've been stupid enough to keep doing business with them...



I'm lucky my mother's maiden name is 32 characters, including caps, numbers and special characters.


It's to the point where we have to invent fake identities for ourselves for authentication purposes.




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