Banks are typically the worst. All sorts of gimmicky password requirements. 8-12 characters. Must have one capital letter. Must have one number. No special symbols.
So "I can't believe it's not butter!" won't work, yet that would probably be a pretty secure password, and be entirely rememberable. In fact I could come up with a silly pun-filled sentence for each site I visit and make passwords fun again.
The poor state of bank passwords is fresh in my head from working on taxes tonight. It's kinda sad that the message boards I use for non-sense are probably more secure than my banks with respect to password handling.
That said, I don't think Stardock gets a free pass just because a lot of banks suck at it.
Your password:
must start with a number and be between eight and twelve characters in length, and
must contain at least one of the following special characters:
Cannot include your Sender ID, and
Cannot repeat any character consecutively more than two times.
American Express used to require 6-8 alphanumerics. No more, no less. Fortunately they've upped this to... I think something like 20 characters.
Look, I get that there are other safety factors (I pray) in place to prevent someone from hacking my account (most commonly in the form of login-attempt limits), but that's absolutely no reason to stop me from making my password longer and more complex. If I want my door to have a deadbolt _and_ a chain lock I expect a damn good explanation if someone tells me I can't.
Banks are typically the worst. All sorts of gimmicky password requirements. 8-12 characters. Must have one capital letter. Must have one number. No special symbols.
So "I can't believe it's not butter!" won't work, yet that would probably be a pretty secure password, and be entirely rememberable. In fact I could come up with a silly pun-filled sentence for each site I visit and make passwords fun again.