Why are bank card PINs only 4 numbers while people advocate for complicated and lengthy online passwords?
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To make it easy to remember and enter on a keypad, instead of a whole keyboard at a store or atm.
The man who came up with the complex password requirements now says it was a mistake. It ended up forcing people create less secure passwords, or writing them down where someone else could access them.
Now that password keychains are easily accessible on our phones, it’s less of an issue to have long secure passwords,”. Also Two-Factor Authentication is spreading into normal acceptance for logins, and that can help alleviate the password burden.
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