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Auntie[^] has this story about a malware strike against SA systems. I don't know much about Dexter as malware but the SA banking/payment system is continuously alive with fraudulent transactions. My nephew works for Investec as a risk assessment analyst. He told me recently about how widespread fraud is, so much so in fact, that the SARB and the government placed an almost complete suppression on what can be reported to avoid it affecting consumer and investor confidence.
My b-i-l told us that his particular bank sends an SMS for every transaction that goes through his account if it exceeds his specified transaction threshold. Both he and his wife have reported 39 fraudulent transaction attempts on the their current account since June. By all accounts the analysis of transaction fraud, detection and notification in SA is up there with the best in the world. Unfortunately, it affects all current account holders equally. What we hear about is a small part of the problem. If those criminals could only give the same attention to doing things honestly I wonder how much better things would be.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Here is our abbreviated password policy:
1: Must contain at least one lowercase letter.
2: Must contain at least one uppercase letter.
3: Must contain at least one digit (0-9).
I had a user explain to me today that she had problems setting a new password.
She was pretty proud of herself because she managed to troubleshoot the problem on her own.
She had a problem, re-read the password policy, and realized she had included the number 13 in her password when the policy only allows 0-9.
She removed the '3' and it worked.
I just nodded and smiled.
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When the policy says "Must contain at least one digit (0-9)" , As I understood the password must have at least one digit but it shouldn't restrict the user to have more than one digit right? like the password containing two digits 1 followed by 3 
Ranjan.D
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The password policy doesn't restrict the use of more than one digit.
She probably mis-typed on the confirmation.
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Quote: I just nodded and smiled.
And then posted on the internet so we can all get a good chuckle. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Isn't that why Al Gore invented the Internet?
BDF
The internet makes dumb people dumber and clever people cleverer.
-- PaulowniaK
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No, it's for pictures of cats. And porn.
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harold aptroot wrote: No, it's for pictures of cats. And porn.
FTFY
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As long as it's not for porno pictures of cats
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Somehow the email for your post made it through the junk mail filter. Have to tell them to look for the word porno.
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Sometimes you just have to let them have that little victory of theirs...
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Those are a bit simple: where is the Haiku? The Gang Sign? You can't have a properly secure password system without those... 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Your password policy sucks. You should allow a tolerance there - so users should be able to go up to at least 15! 
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Quote: Curiosity Kills
True. But usually it is the cat.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I had a letter to post.
I waited for the rain to cease, but it didn't. So I went to the post-box in the deluge as I felt I couldn't wait any longer or else I'd miss the collection.
As I approached, Pat drove off. With sadness and a heave heart I posted my letter and turned for home.
As I trudged home in sodden sorry state, I felt a fart rising and I let her rip. It wasn't a fart.
I got home and the rain stopped.
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I have cancelled the rest of the day. 
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I felt a fart rising and I let her rip. It wasn't a fart.
I blame twitter for people feeling the need to post things that we don't really need to, or even want to, know.
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Twitter would be worse. A lot, lot worse. I have not got so wet [from the rain] in a long time; it's that ugly heavy rain.
speramus in juniperus
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And then what happened?
Please don't keep us hanging on.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Not sure about you, but I'm happy to wait until at least the heat death of the universe to hear the end of the fart story.
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: I had a letter to post.
I waited for the rain to cease, but it didn't. So I went to the post-box in the deluge as I felt I couldn't wait a
I knew there was something I liked about the 140-char cut-off point!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: As I trudged home in sodden sorry state, I felt a fart rising and I let her rip. It wasn't a fart.
all of a sudden I have gone off my chocolate muffin 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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I'll have it!
speramus in juniperus
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