Edit: @Successful_Try543@feddit.org solved it. It says “one special character”. Not “at least one”.
Noone should of aloud this code to go out the door. Atleast alot of other people people probably complained aswell, so your apart of a bigger group, incase you were worried.
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And yes, this was painful to type.
Your comment is painful to read.
Your well come.
I miss Allie’s blog alot.
This broke me. 🤣
If you have to try really hard to meet their password requirements, that’s how you know it’s super secure.
It says one special character, not at least one. Maybe the password has more than one.
Good catch.
Also psh, there’s no verb, suggesting the password should be exactly one special character and nothing else.
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Yay!
Holy shit!! You did it. I would never expect a banking password to max special characters. I have been scratching my head with Bitwarden and this shitty app for an hour.
Yeah but It still states “A combination of letters, digits and special charaters”
It should then be spelled as “A combination of letters digits, and one special character”
It’s like a Captcha that only lets in autistic people.
But wouldn’t that mean the bottom checkbox should be cleared and the 2nd one should be checked?
Still doesn’t make sense.
Yeah that’s true. The UI does not accurately represent the validation conditions.
Yes, the 2nd one implies that there should be more than one.
And the wording is fucking terrible as well
i have to wonder if banks actively don’t want us to use them
I love how the acceptance/rejection status is messed up.
If it’s only one special character, then that should be unchecked not check, and the combination of “letters, numbers and special characters” should be check marked.
It says “one special character”. Not “at least one”.
oh. oh god. what the fuck.
No Homers.
It’s fucking insane that an internet banking portal has such a low cap on max characters and such shitty rule enforcement.
seriously, I’ve never seen a bank with password login to begin with. Every bank i know of uses physical devices that you type a code into
Never heard of this. Where is this at? :o
Sweden. The little keyfob thingies have been the thing for many decades here, I would guess ever since the dawn of internet banking, but I’d have to ask my parents instead of just assuming. I used to assume that was just normal for banks in the world at large. When you want to log in, the website gives you a code, you type the code into the fob and it responds with another code you type in to the website.
Nowadays they additionally offer login via BankID, a mobile app used throughout Sweden for personal online identification.
As a German, when living in Sweden, I was (and still am) very impressed, how widespread the use of (Mobile) Bank ID, beside the use of the personal ID number (As a male German, the state has assigned me at least three different ones without requiring any interaction.) for basically everything, is.
In Germany, before introducing a second electronic way of authentication for online (or phone) banking, it was done by a chosen password and a TAN (transaction number) from a list that you regularly got sent by mail in a special envelope. Later it was replaced by that “thingy”, a mobile TAN generator, or push TAN via SMS.
OMG the special envelope seems to make it specially easier for people to steal just the right mail
It was not special from the outside, but from the inside. It was either the envelope or the TAN list that was printed with a special pattern to prevent reading the list by using a flashlight.
OTP for 2FA has just started becoming common here (US) within the last decade I think. Each bank has its own separate app and many banks seem to limit password lengths to less than other websites.
I want this so bad now.
Some internet banking sites give access after only asking for login password. They will only ask for transaction password and OTP (that will only come on phone) later on. Asking for two passwords isn’t necessarily more secure since many people will just reuse their original one again. And OTP instead of offering something like hardware security key is insane.
Reason why I took a hardware tan generator versus using the OTP function of one of their other apps.
Thanks but no, I will use the old crusty method as I know how easy that’s hacked.My bank uses 6 digit ‘customer number’ (which is set by the bank) and that’s verified with an app and a personal PIN (app shows ‘login attempt ABCD at mm.dd. hh:mm’ where ABCD is shown on login page too) or via SMS OTP (again with ‘ABCD’ verification). And again with personal pin + app or OTP to confirm transactions. The app itself can be protected with a fingerprint or phone pin and every new installation needs to be registered to the system, so I can’t just use my phone app to access my wifes account (or anyone elses) but I still can map multiple accounts (like corporate ones) to the same installation.
I think that’s pretty reasonable approach.
They can’t even properly check their copy on critical infrastructure. Top notch work over there, top to bottom.
My bank’s password used to have to be exactly 6 characters, no special characters and you could use numbers and letters interchangeably because it was also your phone banking password.
a previous bank used to have a max password length of 8 characters, then proudly announced that they will increase it to 32
Then I made a typo at the end of my password and it let me in anyway, and I realised they were just trimming the first 8 characters to give the illusion of security
That is so insane. To think they would rather just clip the passwords instead of habing it be longer.
Did you try out your hypothesis by using the first 8 letters than just random junk until you hit your password length?
I tried then first N characters of my password until I found out the threshold was at 8, then I tried with the first 8 chartacters of my password and then random junk and it worked.
I also had two friends in the same bank to validate
Unbelievable.
And I’m honestly surprised they let you do that many password tries. I would seriously consider changing banks.
It is insane that any internet banking portal still uses a static password.
wdym? What’s a dynamic password?
A token?
Time-based one-time passwords. It’s been used for years for multi-factor authentication.
Yeah, multi factor, that means you still have a regular password as well as the totp.
that was one example of where they are used lol
A rotating code key - a lot of banks these days will give you a fob to enter a rotating proof of ownership off of along with your password.
At least it should not, in many countries must not, be the only measure.
I once encountered an OR in the requirements: Capital letters, small letters and digits OR special characters.
The ERP software I have to use has a strict limit of 6 characters as password. Only alphabet and numbers allowed.
Maybe when I leave I try an SQL injection.
Bobby tables, noooooooo!
Visa has a hard limit of 8 and requires the first 4 to be numbers because the phone tree might require it as a password
The whole banking industry is ridiculous and is ridiculously legislated
USAA has 8-12 ONLY. My smallest memorized password algorithm is 13 characters, that I typically use for throwaways, doesn’t even fit.
Their desktop site is even more shitty. It won’t allow right click or paste actions. There goes compatibility with password managers.
Any password manager should be able to “type in” the password. Or be a browser plugin that doesn’t rely on copy pasting, but use other mechanisms to inject it directly into the field.
But yes, if that’s their online portal, I am not kidding I would change banks.
Bitwarden has a function where it types in (not pastes) the password and shows the prompt for it without right-click.
And even if theres an app for Windows (https://github.com/jlaundry/TypeClipboard) that can type it for you and even has a shortcut.
I am sure someone in the linux world knows an equivalent tool.
We use it at work to paste long passwords when remoting in.Nice find, thanks for sharing.
For Macs (only Macs, I believe), there is StopTheMadness, which, uh well, stops the madness (test page here for some examples it can re-enable).
On Mac you can use Hammerspoon and just create a shortcut to
hs.eventtap.keyStrokes(hs.pasteboard.getContents())
As a super secret dev hack may I introduce you to
shift + inserta fair few sites specifically blockctrl + vinstead of properly disabling the clipboard action and, of course, if you read this and then submit a Jira ticket to blockshift + insert… well… h8uYou can also drag the password in from another text field instead of pasting
Aah… I completely forgot about that. Will try next time. Also yesterday I saw Shift + F10 will show the context menu. Yet to test it on this site.
I usually to in the developer tools and manually disable the thing preventing the paste action. It’s usually a string to remove some JS or something or an Event that you need to uncheck
If you’re opening up the dev tools you can also paste your string directly into
<input value="" />unless something weird is going on.*Laughs in blazor*
I had to create an account on a government website. The website didn’t list a character limit so I used a password manager to generate a 32 character password. My account was created but I couldn’t log in. I used the “forgot my password” option and I received an email of my password in plain text. I also noticed why I couldn’t log in. The password was truncated to just 20 characters. Brilliant website! Tax dollars at work!
This was a new one for me:
Translation: Password strength: weak. Please don’t use any special characters.
It was a generated 14 char password… (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻)
Your Internet Banking Password should one special character (~!@#%^&*)
Great grammar on their part.
atleast a 5/10 in effort
Yeah, they noticed their mistake too late, hence the expletive.
When you enter an apostrophe, and the site returns a 500 response stating you are trying to attack it. (And yeah, it’s always 500, not 400.)
I used to use a system that was perfectly happy to let you use a semicolon when setting the password, but then login would fail if you did.
“Atleast”?
it’s British. they also do “aswell”
No we don’t.
That programmer has obviously been playing https://neal.fun/password-game/
I can never get past the geoguesser part
I used Google lens. Got stuck afterwards on a chess rule. The captcha rule used the notation for the chess one to complicate it further haha
I got past it because it happened to throw a place from my country. And there was also a flagpole with a flag on it to really drive it home. XD
Last time I got pretty deep in, but it became impossible when the chess notation rule required Cs and Ds, making it impossible to stay below the roman numberal sum limit.
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I remember seeing the most optimal password for this game but now I can’t find it
problem is the late stages of the game the password requirements change when your password’s emojis start catching fire.
I put that out but the stupid chicken choked while I was looking for a YouTube video 4:42 long
If >1 special character is not allowed the last check should be failed . The second check is literally satisfied even if there are 2+ specials.
I’d not be using that bank.
Since when is “atleast” a word?
You are using a special character that is likely reserved internally
My guess is they mean, one capital letter, one lower case letter, a number, and a special character
what’s always amused me about these rules is that they exist because people are dumb. Technically, they lower the difficulty of the passwords slightly. ( for example, knowning that one character is a number reduces it to 10 options in stead of 10+26+26+whatever set of special characters)
anyhow. people should use password managers. just saying.
