Re:Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack
by user5994461 on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:14AM
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Card terminals only have numbers. Not planning to ship them with a full keyboard. That's a good reason to only take numbers.
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Re:Bitcoin exchange Youbit shuts after second hack attack
by Anarch157a on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:34AM
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Not to mention that Indo-Arabic digits are almost universal, other characters are not. Picture a chinese or armenian with a password that uses characters from their respective alphabets trying to type it on each other's ATMs.