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Re:In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in... by bfrydl on Tuesday March 19, 2019 @03:51PM (#19434983)
It's considerably worse when you see bizarre password restrictions because they usually mean the password is stored in plaintext. For example, your bank definitely is doing that.

Don't use that same password for anything else!

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Re:In a study of senior CS majors, U.S. students are tops in... by mike00632 on Wednesday March 20, 2019 @02:00AM (#19439438)
Over the phone with my bank and my cabal company I've had them ask me multiple times to confirm my PIN or give the answer to my security question. I'm shocked that they will store everything in plain text like that AND give a large number of their employees access to it.
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