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		mistercow on March 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What technical reasons are there to have low maxim... Worse yet, it seems to imply that they aren't hashing, which is simply preposterous for a financial institution.

codesuela on March 31, 2013 [–]

Many banks require you to use numbers only for your pin a smart engineer probably figured that cracking 10 char numerical "passwords" is trivial so hashing would be a waste of resources and hence energy and emissions. It is greener that way.

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