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by wsgreen 2602 days ago
Pretty sure bank apps do this for fraud prevention. Preventing criminals from stealing your money is pretty altruistic
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I don't think I've ever had to type a sentence into a bank app, much less 30-40.
You've probably typed a username or password hundreds of times though, or at least a fair portion of their userbase has. "This user normally types their password in 3 seconds but today they did it in 0.2 seconds" is a reasonable way to raise a red (or at least yellow) flag.
I pretty much exclusively use 1pass, so there's not much information there on the bank fill side of things.
No, banks won’t do this, most banks still struggle with basics like storing passwords securely.