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by tpaschalis 2892 days ago
Well, maybe I'm over-reaching, but I think that most banking "security" sucks.

Last month I tried to make an e-banking account in South Europe. In 2018.

- They required "6-12 characters as a password, and no special characters". You can't hash special chars?

- Apparently it's okay, because "2FA". Which is a "changeable via a call" 4-digit-code, which the bank employee knows "only" two digits.

I'd be far more inclined to trust Twitter or GitHub than my bank with my data.

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In my country, many banks force people to install "security modules" which includes a driver that monitors their network. There is no privacy policy.