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Using “Pants” In Your Password Can Backfire

Started by Duncan Riley · 10 months ago

Slyly insulting your bank with the word “pants” can have its consequences.
Sound crazy? Check it out: A British bank customer says he wasn’t pleased with his bank, Lloyd’s TSB, so he changed his banking password to “Lloyds is pan ... Continue reading »

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  • Kevin

    10 months ago

    Lloyd's stores passwords unencrypted? It shouldn't be *possible* for a bank employee to know what your password is. If any random employee can obtain the users' login credentials, you money is not safe there.

    Reason enough by itself to take your business elsewhere, even apart from the lack of a sense of humor.

    That, or the story is false.
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  • hypocentre

    10 months ago

    I think you'll find that 'pants' are undergarments in Britain. The picture is of what we would call trousers.
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  • DoQrs

    10 months ago

    So.. a bank stores passwords in cleartext.. ?
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  • Tyler

    10 months ago

    what a load of pants!
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  • Malvolio

    7 months ago

    It's a serious security hole to store the password at all. I won't go into the technical details of verifying an offered password without the original to compare it against, but it isn't difficult and keeps you from getting into all sorts of trouble. If Lloyds isn't up to this simple technique (which was developed in the mid-1960s), they ARE pants.
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