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What? US banks won't bank you if you don't have 27 distinct forms of government ID and a recent rectal exam.

And then they have someone with an incomprehensible accent in a call center that probably also runs scam calls calling you up and asking for your password as part of their ordinary SOP.

They deploy fancy new tech like "verifying your voice" with some AI crap while simultaneously not allowing your password to have more than 8 characters. (Which must have two symbols but if one of them is ` you'll experience random spontaneous logouts).

There may be many causes of the disaster that is bank security, people not having ID is absolutely not part of it.



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