“Enterprise-level developers” working on mission critical banking software don’t make people have to open up developer tools to see the regular expression error on a registration form challenge 2026.
It’s not rocket science, folks.
*smdh*
@aral holy f that url! I’d be having an emotional breakdown between having to open a bank account and being sure someone was stealing my identity.
If you’re trying to register for a Bank of Ireland account and the form fails silently, don’t worry, it’s simple to find out what happened and fix it.
1. Open up developer tools on your browser
2. Copy the failed regular expression from the console
3. Put it, and your generated password into Regexr (https://regexr.com)
And voila, as you can see the problem with mine* was that it hit the 16 character limit which was, to keep things exciting, not mentioned on the page.
Simples.
What muppets!
* Don’t worry, it’s a different one now.
#capitalism #mainstream #mediocrity #BankOfIreland #banks #design #web #dev #ireland
Me: I need to reluctantly do some adulting.
Also me: Ends up debugging some bank’s stupid web site.
🤷♂️
Mine once had a 21 character limit on the web, but a 20 character limit mobile web, and the error was "wrong password".
Does anyone test anything?
@aral Please share my post, my dear
@aral
Dumb rules for passwords really wind me up. Why should I *have* to include a number, for example? That just reduces the search space for any attacker. And then there are sites that prevent the use of certain special characters, again for no good reason (apart from the bad design of their back end, I suppose).
Secret validation fails just compound the problem.
@aral having a nice and concise password is essential for banking I guess 🤪
@aral@mastodon.ar.al WHY in the fuck's name would you want a 16 character limit on a bank password
Why do banks consistently have worse security than your average website
@witix Enterprise-level, innit?
@aral sanitisation in the front end, ofc
@aral technology departments across banks struggle to define the simplest of business rules. Who knows what’s happening with complex processes
@aral the browser console is a language I don’t speak.
@GezThePez How do you manage everyday things like banking without it? :P
@aral the computer is in charge
