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Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by dmoney on Sunday February 07, 2010 @09:36PM (#1108742)
They could block whatever location the fake account was accessed from, but the attacker could try one account each from lots of different locations (perhaps through a botnet). For this to be useful the bank would have to lock all account access from everywhere when a fake one was accessed.
Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by calcnerd256 on Sunday February 07, 2010 @11:30PM (#1108948)
at which point the only thing to say is "denial of service"
Re:AmEx: "We discourage the use of special characters becaus... by staticshock on Monday February 08, 2010 @08:37AM (#1109662)
Additionally, the mined usernames / passwords could still be used to brute force other banking / credit card web sites.