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    Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] ozymandias117@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Unless they’ve changed it very recently, Wells Fargo’s passwords are case insensitive

    [–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    Air Canada's online account system required a 6 character password, which was secretly converted via T9 to 6 numbers on the back end, meaning "aaaaaa" and "bbbbbb" were effectively the same password, and this was only fixed in 2018

    [–] 4z01235@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

    That sounds like someone who topped out with highschool level programming tried to implement a hash algorithm.

    [–] trafficnab@lemmy.ca 4 points 7 months ago

    My personal theory is that it's a remnant of an old system that was only accessible by phone (hence the 6 digit pin), and they simply grafted an online component on top of it