AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters because..."

Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by ErrantX on Sunday February 07, 2010 @08:09PM (#1108622)

I wish hsbc gave you the numbers it wanted you to enter as images too. Makes it a little more difficult to parse.

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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by yannis on Monday February 08, 2010 @12:47AM (#1109113)

Some banks in South Africa used to bring up a little image keyboard and you click the letters (ie no keyboard) in my mind this is still one of the best ways to protect against keylogging.

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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by cliveholloway on Monday February 08, 2010 @09:45AM (#1109791)

Storing the password in a truecrypted file and copy pasting also works. Though, for someone going to those lengths, a keylogger is a very unlikely to be a problem for someone paying that much attention.

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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by aidenn0 on Monday February 08, 2010 @02:08PM (#1110395)

A software key-logger can also typically snoop the contents of the clipboard.

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