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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. TZubiri · 1790987133 · focus · HN ↗

      In Argentina our password is called username, it gets the password treatment, but the UIs call it login.

      I think it has to do with the fact that Banks are heavily driven by nation law and regulation, so it's not engineering folk that are at the helm, rather it's driven by natural language source code written by non technical people that compiles to target code through engineering lackeys. It works for the most part, but you get very weird failure modes.

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