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I'm glad they fixed this, but until relatively recently (last year), Charles Schwab had the following password requirements:

* between 6 and 8 characters

* alphanumeric

* no symbols

* case-insensitive

[1] is a nice writeup of exactly how broken this was until they changed it recently.

[1] - http://www.jeremytunnell.com/posts/swab-password-policies-an...



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