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Why do you need an Authenticator app to log into PACER but not your bank?

Is it just b/c proles wouldn't be able to figure it out?
emerald very tactful gay wizard
  07/31/26
Yeah I don’t get it. What are we preventing? Someone f...
Arousing Olive Spot
  07/31/26
Remember in '08 when that biglaw poaster whose name I forgot...
obsidian church
  07/31/26
...
Cerebral deer antler
  07/31/26
You have a PACER account? Can you do your XO bros a solid an...
Contagious hall reading party
  07/31/26
For profit institutions have to do a cost benefit analysis a...
gunneratttt
  07/31/26
They build it into the app itself. They want control over th...
Deranged goal in life
  07/31/26
TBF everybody probably should get a couple of Yubikeys and s...
Shimmering naked center
  07/31/26
yubikeys are 180
Deranged goal in life
  07/31/26
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Insecure background story rehab
  07/31/26
PACER IS FAGGOT.
Concupiscible self-centered corn cake
  07/31/26
No one answered the question. A bunch of non sequiturs in th...
Arousing Olive Spot
  07/31/26
It's because proles wouldn't be able to figure it out
Deranged goal in life
  07/31/26
I answered the way I did because it's far more important tha...
Shimmering naked center
  07/31/26


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Date: July 31st, 2026 3:57 PM
Author: emerald very tactful gay wizard

Is it just b/c proles wouldn't be able to figure it out?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037261)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:05 PM
Author: Arousing Olive Spot

Yeah I don’t get it. What are we preventing? Someone filing something under my name? Who would bother doing that? Was that a problem? Someone using your account to view documents to avoid paying 10 cents a page? The max you could owe is 15 bucks a month. What’s their angle?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037268)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:06 PM
Author: obsidian church

Remember in '08 when that biglaw poaster whose name I forgot wrote a script permitting us to use xo logins on PACER

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037270)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:33 PM
Author: Cerebral deer antler



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037333)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:06 PM
Author: Contagious hall reading party

You have a PACER account? Can you do your XO bros a solid and pull some court docs?

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037271)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:08 PM
Author: gunneratttt (gunneratttt)

For profit institutions have to do a cost benefit analysis and compete for customers, governments do not. This is the root cause of why government systems are more cumbersome and bureaucratic.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037275)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:14 PM
Author: Deranged goal in life

They build it into the app itself. They want control over the security channel plus having some push notification is easier than making every prole generate and type in some generic six-digit code half of them won't be able to figure out how to do it. Agree it is kind of weird they don't force you to turn it on, but also they use all kinds of risk telemetry and device fingerprinting to flag unusual login attempts.



(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037295)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 4:36 PM
Author: Shimmering naked center

TBF everybody probably should get a couple of Yubikeys and set up their banking/brokerage to use them via an authenticator app.

This bullshit where they text your phone a code is a weakness.

Put one on your keyring, stick the other in a safe deposit box.

https://www.yubico.com/store/

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037343)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 5:13 PM
Author: Deranged goal in life

yubikeys are 180

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037451)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 9:51 PM
Author: Insecure background story rehab



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Date: July 31st, 2026 5:12 PM
Author: Concupiscible self-centered corn cake

PACER IS FAGGOT.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037446)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 8:24 PM
Author: Arousing Olive Spot

No one answered the question. A bunch of non sequiturs in this thread.

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037929)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 8:29 PM
Author: Deranged goal in life

It's because proles wouldn't be able to figure it out

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50037942)



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Date: July 31st, 2026 9:53 PM
Author: Shimmering naked center

I answered the way I did because it's far more important that you take the time set up to hardware authentication on your $$$ vs. idly bullshitting about why the government is doing what it's doing.

They've run PACER in an idiotic fashion since its inception, I don't know why a minor change in log-in procedure is worth discussing

(https://autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5888063&forum_id=2#50038059)