[moneydance] Severe Bank of America bill pay problems

[Dave Saville]

On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:15:15 -0400, David Schuetz wrote:

>Actually, it makes very little technical sense -- though at an  
>operational security level, it makes sense from the standpoint that  
>it makes it harder to use, say, one's telephone number or SSN or  
>anything as an ID.  Though really, it doesn't matter what my ID is,  
>it's my password that needs to be kept private. (and I've got a  
>running beef with a lot of sites, including BoA, over stupid password  
>requirements.  I generate very secure passwords, and lots of sites  
>won't even accept them because of the characters I use.  Hell, BoA  
>won't even let me use a "!" (!!).)

It might be more secure to use characters outside of A-Z a-z 0-9 but when
traversing different systems, OSes, code pages etc. etc. it is safer to stay
away from them. I *have* seen passwords set and then be rejected when you try
and login - Going from a PC running Win to a Solaris box for example.

-- 
Regards

Dave Saville