contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agoA cool guide to PIN code safetyi.redd.itimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1549arrow-down119file-text
arrow-up1530arrow-down1imageA cool guide to PIN code safetyi.redd.itcontentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square93fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareDem Bosain@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up102·2 months agoNow imagine if you could use FIVE digits for something as important as a bank account.
minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-22 months 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-up13·2 months agoI’ve met ones that restrict passwords to be 6–8 characters
minus-squareBakulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-22 months agoAt my last job, our payroll logins were maxed at 6 characters
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoInstall a second language keyboard, and put your password in those characters.
minus-squareWolfLink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months agoSecond factor being a “security question” that anyone who stalks you on social media could figure out.
minus-squareTassieTosserlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 months 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-up1·2 months agoBut then you have to note down another password.
minus-squaretecht@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·2 months agoI use 8! My mom called me ridiculous for doing that :(
minus-squareTurun@feddit.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49arrow-down1·2 months agoIt is! How long does it even take to type in 40320 digits?!?
minus-squaretigeruppercut@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoI figure gotta be, at least 45 seconds!
minus-squareblx@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 months agoShe’s right, 8 is not a very secure code.
Now imagine if you could use FIVE digits for something as important as a bank account.
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.
I use 8! My mom called me ridiculous for doing that :(
It is! How long does it even take to type in 40320 digits?!?
I figure gotta be, at least 45 seconds!
She’s right, 8 is not a very secure code.