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xp84 • today at 4:39 PM • 0 replies • view on HN

The same banks that typically embrace the 3 biggest signs of security stupidity:

- max length of passwords (not talking about lengths that would pose a DoS threat, talking limits like 20 characters)

- incredibly constrained character set for passwords (“your password can’t contain a quotation mark, only alphanumeric and these specific 10 punctuation marks”)

- “security” questions (can we just ban these already? Knowing that my childhood dog’s name was Bingo should NOT give you the ability to change my brokerage password.)