Comment on A question about passwords | characters used in them

• jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Example please? This is not been my experience

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  • MagicShel@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Mainly financial sites, in my experience. I also have problems logging into Mastodon, because if I manually type my user and password I get logged in but if I use Bitwarden or even copy/paste it fails.

    But also every site where you type in the user name and then submit and it takes you to enter the password - I use a lot of custom emails to avoid spam so I may not remember my username for a given site, but Bitwarden won’t recognize it as a login page (much bigger problem on mobile, which is where I do most of my stuff).

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    • jet@hackertalks.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s your browser. You can install JavaScript or a browser extension which disallows the no paste input field. So that you can always paste in.

      The financial institutions that implement that they’re trying to guard against local copy and paste password theft. Any program can have access to the clipboard. So I understand why they do it, and I understand why it’s annoying.

      For financial institutions I highly recommend using something like a Fido 2 key. I’m partial to the yubikey bioseries.

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  • jadero@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Prairie Centre Credit Union.

    After years of complaining, they finally did something about their hopelessly insecure authentication, only to completely bork it.

    Bitwarden could open the site, but couldn’t push the login info. They prohibited pasting, so I had type everything by hand. And they couldn’t even get that prohibition right, because I discovered that I could type a character then CTRL+V to paste, then HOME, DEL.

    All of that is written past tense, because it was the last straw. I took my banking elsewhere, despite the fact I now have to drive 2.5 hours if I need to talk to someone in person.

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