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Reddit_MLP2yesterday at 5:02 PM2 repliesview on HN

sadly it seems like most of the banks I use still enforce antiquated password rules, no MFA and rely on stupid questions most of which can easily be guessed from public records.


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bdammyesterday at 6:33 PM

Just the other day I was creating an ID on a government web site, which offered a list of security questions such as "Title of your favorite movie" or "Someone that you admired as a child" and the answer was not allowed to have any spaces.

Just absurd.

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Melatonicyesterday at 8:16 PM

You can also just put any answer into the question as long as you will remember it.

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