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by Encrust6221 1223 days ago
> BBVA

> Username is your national ID (easy to find) and your password must have up to 6 alphanumeric characters only.

Insanity. How is a system like that remotely acceptable?

1 comments

Many banks in Spain have the same exact restrictions. My guess is somebody sold the same shitty COBOL backend to everyone back in the 60s, and they keep running it with different HTML layers slapped on top.