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Re:PayPal 2FA Bypass by necessity on Sunday October 23, 2016 @03:48AM (#12772484)
Heh, both my banks (Banco do Brasil and Santander) are worse. 6 characters, numbers only! "For my safety" they recommend not using my birthday - how thoughtful.
Re:PayPal 2FA Bypass by Moter8 on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:35AM (#12772605)
It's the personal identifier (Kinda like social security number I guess? You write it on every contract you sign basically) and a 4-digit pin here in Spain. Stupidly insecure.
Re:PayPal 2FA Bypass by woliveirajr on Sunday October 23, 2016 @07:33AM (#12773074)
But then you (you= any person) have to consider that it'll block after some tries.

It's different from a system that never blocks passwords, security questions, and so on.

Re:PayPal 2FA Bypass by Drdrdrq on Sunday October 23, 2016 @11:19AM (#12773892)
Great, then it's a DOS attack. Unless it is limited per IP, and then it's not effective again if attacker has a botnet.
Re:PayPal 2FA Bypass by robryk on Sunday October 23, 2016 @09:14AM (#12773419)
Attacker's first attempt has a nonnegligible chance of success. Attacker can just do one attempt against one account and move to attacking a different account after each failure.