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A question about passwords | characters used in them
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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Banks are the worst in this, the one website that should have secure passwords uses standards so low that KeePass can't even go so low. I have to use a password I can remember, which may not actually be of a low standard but is in this case, considering it's only 10 chars.
Banks are the single industry most likely to be handing the passwords over to a 1970s mainframe that expects everything to be encoded in EBCDIC at some point in the validation sequence.
This is an explanation, not an excuse.
That’s the digital equivalent to the key under the rock, but it’s the only rock on your porch.