How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016

Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by rms_returns on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @01:58PM (#11120270)

I once had to call my bank a few years ago to disable my debit card. The reason was that I inserted it in an ATM and the ATM had chosen that exact moment to malfunction and shut down!

The operator on the line asked me a ton of questions starting from my user-id (but not password), date of birth, full name, father's name, place of birth, type of account and many others that I don't remember now. Only after I correctly answered all these questions, did he start acting on my instructions.

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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by herbst on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @02:11PM (#11120360)

My bank always asks me for: Birthday, Address and last time i got how much money. The first 2 details can be easy (in my country there is a website which shows this for most people who dont know how to stop them), the third one can be easy if you stalk me a day or two.

But if i tell them to not make it that easy, i cant manage my shit over the phone anymore :/

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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by manojlds on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:52PM (#11123335)

I have a telephonic pin for my account that I use.

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Re:How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016 by herbst on Thursday February 18, 2016 @02:36AM (#11124291)

Simpler and way much more reasonable.

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