contentbot@lemmy.caB to Cool Guides@lemmy.caEnglish · 5 months agoA cool guide to PIN code safetyi.redd.itimagemessage-square93fedilinkarrow-up1551arrow-down119file-text
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minus-square9point6@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up42·edit-25 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-up13·5 months agoI’ve met ones that restrict passwords to be 6–8 characters
minus-squareBakulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-25 months agoAt my last job, our payroll logins were maxed at 6 characters
minus-square𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoInstall a second language keyboard, and put your password in those characters.
minus-squareWolfLink@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 months agoSecond factor being a “security question” that anyone who stalks you on social media could figure out.
minus-squareTassieTosserlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 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-up1·5 months 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.