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What shocks (and irritates!) me is that Charles Schwab keeps wanting me to set up voice ID. Why would I want to set up a voice ID for something that is now trivially spoofed?


When was the last time you encountered this? I remember getting nags up until around the end of last year, but not lately. I like to think they dropped the program because I expressed concerns about it to so many reps, but more likely I've just been dialing in on a different number.


Today. I get an interstitial every time I log in that tries to get me to enable their VoiceID system (here's a screenshot): https://georgestocker.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/schwabv...


That's crazy. Well, I guess I'll keep at them.


Schwab used to have an 8 character maximum on passwords (although at least they changed that). They have never been a paragon of good security practices.


They've presumably been good enough that their losses are less costly than better security.




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