Avoid Schwab Bank; incompetant password policies.
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Dan Neely wrote:
Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees?
I'm actually surprised that a bank exists that does this sort of thing. I would suggest that you instead go with a credit union. They are more service and member oriented and don't typically charge all the nuisance fees of the big banks. [Do Savings and Loan organizations still exist? I used them in the 1980s and was happy with them as well. I don't see any around any more though...]
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Charles Schwab does offer a free “security token” to interested customers that generates a six digit number for them to enter alongside a password.
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Charles Schwab does offer a free “security token” to interested customers that generates a six digit number for them to enter alongside a password.
peterchen wrote:
Charles Schwab does offer a free “security token” to interested customers that generates a six digit number for them to enter alongside a password.
You'd need to trust them to have implemented it correctly. I don't trust anyone stupid enough to cap passwords like that of being able to remember to breathe without a hob whispering in his ear. "breathe in.... breathe out..."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
Undoubtedly a COBOL back-end with a fixed length password field. ;) Marc
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peterchen wrote:
Charles Schwab does offer a free “security token” to interested customers that generates a six digit number for them to enter alongside a password.
You'd need to trust them to have implemented it correctly. I don't trust anyone stupid enough to cap passwords like that of being able to remember to breathe without a hob whispering in his ear. "breathe in.... breathe out..."
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I'd guess that there is a healthy mix of red tape, crypto-incompetence and black ice that makes it more expensive for the banks to change their authentification system than pay a bunch of lawyers stamping "identity theft, not our fault" everywhere.
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Undoubtedly a COBOL back-end with a fixed length password field. ;) Marc
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My BlogProbably; and a half dozen years ago I might have let it slide. Today though, with 8 char passwords being well into brute force range I want something significantly harder for critical accounts. That does raise an interesting question though, would using pkbdf, bcrypt, or scrypt slow a cracking attempt down enough to make 8 characters long enough to be safe.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
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Undoubtedly a COBOL back-end with a fixed length password field. ;) Marc
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In the past I've sung their praises here for offering a free interest bearing checking and refunding 3rd party ATM fees. However it turns out that they're silently truncating passwords at the 8 character mark. :mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: Can anyone recommend a bank with a free checking account that refunds random 3rd party ATM fees? An interest bearing account would be a plus as well; but at current rates getting the occasional ATM fee waived would be worth more so that's secondary. http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/why-your-password-cant-have-symbols-or-be-longer-than-16-characters/[^]
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason? Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful? --Zachris Topelius Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies. -- Sarah Hoyt
I've been using Ally.com as my primary bank for a while now, and I'm really quite pleased with their performance. I don't know about truncating passwords, but they do everything else right.
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