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Why don't banks like root on Android? (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Air Canada's online account system required a 6 character password, which was secretly converted via T9 to 6 numbers on the back end, meaning "aaaaaa" and "bbbbbb" were effectively the same password, and this was only fixed in 2018

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like someone who topped out with highschool level programming tried to implement a hash algorithm.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

My personal theory is that it's a remnant of an old system that was only accessible by phone (hence the 6 digit pin), and they simply grafted an online component on top of it