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After being a Digital Credit Union member since they opened their doors more than 20 years ago, I'm moving on. I opened an 'advantage' account with vanguard yesterday. Funny, when I joined DCU as a Digital Equipment Corp employee back in the early 80's, I didnt think the bank would last long. Lasted a lot longer than the company that spawned it...
Last year they decided that people who had their site open in a browser would periodically get a pop up telling them that their session was being ended, even if they were just sitting at the home page, not logged in. Invariably this popped up when I was in the middle of looking at something or typing something. I ended up having to drop them from my standard firefox tabs as it just became an annoying pain in the butt. Which led to not remembering to check my bank account regularly for any 'funny business'.
Yesterday they decided that all PIN's have to be a mix of six letters and numbers and force changed every six months. Apparently their security guy hasnt seen any of the bazillion studies I saw as an IT manager that note that forcing 'strong passwords' and password changes on the rank and file results in either the user picking an easily remembered/discovered word and rotating a single digit number in it, or writing the password down and taping it to their monitor or putting it under their keyboard. In other words, no real security benefit. And then you have the issue of users forgetting their new passwords at a regular rate, account lockouts and password resets combined with the worldwide support response time malaise.
I hate forced password/security stuff. The "P" in PIN is supposed to mean "personal"...
Now I just need to get vanguard to start offering HELOCs...
Last year they decided that people who had their site open in a browser would periodically get a pop up telling them that their session was being ended, even if they were just sitting at the home page, not logged in. Invariably this popped up when I was in the middle of looking at something or typing something. I ended up having to drop them from my standard firefox tabs as it just became an annoying pain in the butt. Which led to not remembering to check my bank account regularly for any 'funny business'.
Yesterday they decided that all PIN's have to be a mix of six letters and numbers and force changed every six months. Apparently their security guy hasnt seen any of the bazillion studies I saw as an IT manager that note that forcing 'strong passwords' and password changes on the rank and file results in either the user picking an easily remembered/discovered word and rotating a single digit number in it, or writing the password down and taping it to their monitor or putting it under their keyboard. In other words, no real security benefit. And then you have the issue of users forgetting their new passwords at a regular rate, account lockouts and password resets combined with the worldwide support response time malaise.
I hate forced password/security stuff. The "P" in PIN is supposed to mean "personal"...
Now I just need to get vanguard to start offering HELOCs...
