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1. coaksford · 1790984245 · focus · HN ↗

   All my worst experiences with password length have been banking and finance and it boggles my mind that they all get something so incredibly basic so incredibly wrong. What is it about this sector that makes it so?

   1. ajb · 1790984901 · focus · HN ↗

      There's an inherent insularity to security groups or fraud teams; they have to have a professional suspicion of everything. This can go wrong and end up being NIH or gratuitously customer-unfriendly.

      Also, for finance specifically : " A sound banker, alas, is not one who foresees danger and avoids it, but one who, when he is ruined, is ruined in a conventional way along with his fellows, so that no one can really blame him." - Keynes

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