Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 12:19 -0500 on 01/10/2007, Kim Goldenberg wrote about Re:
Forbidding Special characters in passwords:
Because they don't exist on ATMs. If you have a debit/credit card
tied to your account and go to an ATM, you can't enter the special
characters (perhaps except # and *). ATMs also limit the password
lengths, so that the software inside doesn't have to have more buffer
space than absolutely necessary. That also probably eliminated
upper/lower case differences as well. Quite possibly folds the
letters into the appropriate numbers as on the phone.
What requires that the password for the Credit/Debit card be the same
as that of the Online Account that is is controlled by? My Online
banking accounts have totally different passwords from the ones I use
at the ATM when I present the card. The ATM wants a NUMERIC PIN while
the Online Banking takes an Alphanumeric Password (even if your
selected ATM PIN is just the Telephone Pad translation of the
Alphanumeric Password for the Online Banking).
The bank I use (a nationally known bank) has decided (? by PHBs? ) that
you have one pin for everything. That's their choice, not mine. Now,
however, you now have a passkey of a picture and a description the you
provide and you are required to confirm they match when you log on; kind
of like saying are you really ______?
Not *MY* choice, but theirs.
Kim
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