>Worse: for some reason HSBC recently changed theirs to 6 numeric characters. 6. Numeric only. And while forcing me to change, they repeatedly assured me that this was just as secure as before… Luckily for me all I have with them currently is a mortgage that I'll be paying off in (checks calendar) a week and a half, at which point the whole lot gets closed and they can make it a two digit PIN for all it'll affect my financial security!
I'll one-up you: Nationwide requires six numeric characters, which you have to enter via one 0-9 dropdown menu per digit, and you only have to enter three per login.
i.e. if your "passcode" is 987654, then it will randomly choose only three of those for you to enter, like
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where you'd only have to put in 8, 6, and 5. So it's clearly stored in plaintext. And they have 2FA, but as you might expect, it's SMS only.
And their online banking site is garbage, some links just always timeout and log me out.
Is there a single UK bank that has the following two features: 1) lets me pick a sane password and has non-SMS 2FA, 2) has an online banking interface that works on desktop browsers.
The second one is important to me because I never want to do banking on my phone. Last time I checked, the "challenger banks" like Monzo only have phone options.
I'll one-up you: Nationwide requires six numeric characters, which you have to enter via one 0-9 dropdown menu per digit, and you only have to enter three per login.
i.e. if your "passcode" is 987654, then it will randomly choose only three of those for you to enter, like
where you'd only have to put in 8, 6, and 5. So it's clearly stored in plaintext. And they have 2FA, but as you might expect, it's SMS only.And their online banking site is garbage, some links just always timeout and log me out.
Is there a single UK bank that has the following two features: 1) lets me pick a sane password and has non-SMS 2FA, 2) has an online banking interface that works on desktop browsers.
The second one is important to me because I never want to do banking on my phone. Last time I checked, the "challenger banks" like Monzo only have phone options.