In 2011 @chaos945 made a request to increase password size to 32 characters. Here we are in 2022, 11 years later, and we are still limited to not only 20 characters, but also in the type of characters to use as @niub pointed out. Sim swapping is also a thing but you can still request a password change with a text message.
I find all of this quite worrying. Am I the only one? What can be done to get PayPal to act on this other than just close your account and leave?
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the type of characters should not limit to us in our passwords. this to me would make it easier for a hacker to hack your/my pw. by telling his/her/it algorithm to only include "!@#$%^&*()" characters + abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz. up to 20 total characters. and I agree it should be 36 total characters
and all 22 characters left ( _+-=:";'<>,.?/~`{}[]|\ ) should be available to us
