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by smtf 5331 days ago
Ah. You may want to double check that:

http://www.bmo.com/home/about/banking/privacy-security/prote...

Maybe your the victim of a Phishing attack or something, for example maybe a fake site told you you had to use 4 digits.

Honestly I've heard of a lot worse then this:

http://www.bmo.com/home/about/banking/privacy-security/how-w...

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I just called my bank, to double check, and now 6 character passwords, letters and numbers are allowed, a truly massive improvement!

What i dont understand is now all bank cards in Canada have a smartcard embedded, why cant they just hand out $5 card readers and use that for ebanking, every major browser and OS supports this stuff right out of the box.