contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 1 year agoA cool guide to PIN code safetyi.redd.itimagemessage-square80linkfedilinkarrow-up1537file-text
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up41·edit-21 year agoEven more hilarious is the number of banks that have online login systems that have a maximum length of like 12 characters for the password. and then the 2nd factor? Yeah that’s just another password.
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoI’ve met ones that restrict passwords to be 6–8 characters
minus-squareBaku@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoAt my last job, our payroll logins were maxed at 6 characters
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoInstall a second language keyboard, and put your password in those characters.
minus-squareWolfLink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoSecond factor being a “security question” that anyone who stalks you on social media could figure out.
minus-squareTassieTosser@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 year agoNot if you put nonsense as your security answer too. A lot of people don’t realise that those answers should be secondary passwords.
minus-squareacockworkorange@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoBut then you have to note down another password.
Even more hilarious is the number of banks that have online login systems that have a maximum length of like 12 characters for the password.
and then the 2nd factor? Yeah that’s just another password.
I’ve met ones that restrict passwords to be 6–8 characters
At my last job, our payroll logins were maxed at 6 characters
Install a second language keyboard, and put your password in those characters.
Second factor being a “security question” that anyone who stalks you on social media could figure out.
Not if you put nonsense as your security answer too. A lot of people don’t realise that those answers should be secondary passwords.
But then you have to note down another password.