Verified by Visa: Why are you so rubbish?
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Soldato
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I hate it mainly because I always forget the password and it prevents you from changing it to anything you've had in the past.
Never had a high opinion of it highlights being the way it (used?) to block on a single incorrect entry attempt and problems with purchasing from a small number of perfectly legit places despite getting my bank to clear any flags and pre-auth the transaction - bam verified by visa still blocks it.
Yeah it does my head in.
I submitted a password and every time I purchase something using that card from a secure site I now get asked for that password or some random digits from it to prove it's me making the transaction!
I submitted a password and every time I purchase something using that card from a secure site I now get asked for that password or some random digits from it to prove it's me making the transaction!
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That's not how it works for me. It asked me for a password the first time I used the card, and every single time I've used it since it just skips the Verified by Visa part.
Never understood the point in it personally, had about 4 cards with it and only ever been asked to create a password on first use, never been asked for it after that.
This,
and I think it requires some irritating combination of letters and numbers, but then makes it too short to use my existing password, so I'm stuck trying to think of something memorable but only 6-10 characters in length
Sweet jebus, what kind on ****stain programmer thought it was a good idea to limit the size of a password, save a whole byte did we?
Please die by rectal explosion.
I think that using not your normal password is sort of the point.
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How'd you figure that? This might be a geek forum where people use hashes and unique passwords for every single website but like 99% of the rest of the population I can't remember different passwords to 100 different sites, access said sites on numerous computers and devices and think my 20-digit random assortment of letters and passwords is as strong as a 6 digit one with an exclamation mark at the end.
Either way restricting length is idiotic and forcing special characters is a pain in the bottom.
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Do any of you use a VPN, especially the OP?
Tesco wouldn't initially take my VBV payment, then I figured out it didn't like the IP address I was using, even though it was still a London-based IP. Turned VPN off for 5 minutes and payment went through ok.
Tesco wouldn't initially take my VBV payment, then I figured out it didn't like the IP address I was using, even though it was still a London-based IP. Turned VPN off for 5 minutes and payment went through ok.
I have different levels of passwords, like ones I use for financial stuff and ones I use for forums. I'm not interested in making up unique ones for everything.
It's like systems that automate the changing of passwords, people just increment the number at the end or capitalise the first character.
