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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by memoryfault on Sunday February 07, 2010 @06:54PM (#1108513)
Not to me. You shouldn't compromise the security of your entire system just to safeguard against certain keylogger scenarios.
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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by electromagnetic on Sunday February 07, 2010 @07:41PM (#1108585)
Agreed, if you really want to prevent keyloggers simply stop online banking. That's never going to happen, so decreasing the security of your entire system is stupid.
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