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Now type it a form that doesn’t allow copy and paste.
The California DMV requires you to renew your vehicle registration every year by paying with a bank account number (no card) which is like a 30ish digit number and they disable paste. If you get it wrong they won’t notify you in any way until you get pulled over by a cop who is one bad sneeze away from murdering you. It’s a great system.
Bank account numbers are, like, 8-10 digits. Certainly not 30ish.
What? Mine are 6 digits. Plus the routing number
Still, not 30ish digits like that person said. Hyperbole be damned.
I have renewed my CA registration with a credit card going back to at least 2016. A responsible driver would know their renewal failed when their registration document did not arrive via mail.
Nah dude fuck that. The burned of compliance with laws shouldn't fall so hard on people.
Why?
Wdym why? That's how most bank portals are designed. Copy-paste functionality is disabled and you have to type username, password, authentication code
I think my question was clear enough. The comment didn't mention banks, I've never had a bank that did that, and we generally don't try to hide our identities from our banks anyway. My best guess was that they misunderstood how public/private keys work, but since that was only a guess, I asked.
tbh ive never had a password box that I can't copy/paste into
I've seen a few. They're super annoying when trying to use a password manager with a decent password.
Can't your password manager do autotype? That's what I use mostly, because I don't want all my passwords in my clipboard.
Probably. It works >99% of the time I need it so I haven't poked around in the settings too much.
Or even just a paper form.
A bit of a hacky workaround on Android. Get Keepass2Android, use the included keyboard.
"Paste" whatever via the inbuilt password input functionality. It basically auto types out your passwords. (You protect this behind a master password/and optionally quick accessed by biometrics)
Profit
Yeah... I did this kind of thing before as a password and found that out the hard way