Comments on: British bank changes “pants” password

By: The credit crunch

The credit crunch — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:00 +0000

This is an amazing article. Ive posted an article about it on my blog linking back, great article and yes Lloyds is very pants.

By: The credit crunch

The credit crunch — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:46:00 +0000

This is an amazing article. Ive posted an article about it on my blog linking back, great article and yes Lloyds is very pants.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:35:00 +0000

I would just like to say, it doesn't concern me that Bank Employees can see my password because as it stands they can see my entire banking history at the same time. That said, the situation does concern me but only for the fact that someone in the general public could find out my password.

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:35:00 +0000

I would just like to say, it doesn’t concern me that Bank Employees can see my password because as it stands they can see my entire banking history at the same time. That said, the situation does concern me but only for the fact that someone in the general public could find out my password.

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:28:00 +0000

And yet, when "Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants" came over here, no-one thought to change the name…

By: John

John — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:28:00 +0000

And yet, when “Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants” came over here, no-one thought to change the name…

By: David Snow

David Snow — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:29:00 +0000

Most computer software NEVER stores your reall password. It runs the password thru a one-way lossey hash and stores that result. Each time you enter your password the software runs the password thru the same one-way lossey hash and compares this number with the one stores. You aren't supposed to be able to reconstruct the password from the hash. If banks have such crappy software that they actually store "raw" readable passwords then we should all be scared about how safe our money really is. Especially if employees can read this data.

/DaveS

By: David Snow

David Snow — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:29:00 +0000

Most computer software NEVER stores your reall password. It runs the password thru a one-way lossey hash and stores that result. Each time you enter your password the software runs the password thru the same one-way lossey hash and compares this number with the one stores. You aren’t supposed to be able to reconstruct the password from the hash. If banks have such crappy software that they actually store “raw” readable passwords then we should all be scared about how safe our money really is. Especially if employees can read this data.

/DaveS

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:56:00 +0000

it is funny indeed, but it is worrying that employees can access that data freely and without worries of being asked "why are you looking at that?". Also, I cannot understand why that data wasn't encrypted.

Either way, it wasn't clear which one of the two employees was dismissed: the one that accessed and changed the data or the one that didn't accept the new ones.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:56:00 +0000

it is funny indeed, but it is worrying that employees can access that data freely and without worries of being asked “why are you looking at that?”. Also, I cannot understand why that data wasn’t encrypted.
Either way, it wasn’t clear which one of the two employees was dismissed: the one that accessed and changed the data or the one that didn’t accept the new ones.

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:10:00 +0000

LOL @ pants being bad LOL

By: Ellie

Ellie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:10:00 +0000

LOL @ pants being bad LOL