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It was not special from the outside, but from the inside. It was either the envelope or the TAN list that was printed with a special pattern to prevent reading the list by using a flashlight.

As a German, when living in Sweden, I was (and still am) very impressed, how widespread the use of (Mobile) Bank ID, beside the use of the personal ID number (As a male German, the state has assigned me at least three different ones without requiring any interaction.) for basically everything, is.

In Germany, before introducing a second electronic way of authentication for online (or phone) banking, it was done by a chosen password and a TAN (transaction number) from a list that you regularly got sent by mail in a special envelope. Later it was replaced by that “thingy”, a mobile TAN generator, or push TAN via SMS.

Yay!

It says one special character, not at least one. Maybe the password has more than one.

At least it should not, in many countries must not, be the only measure.
I once encountered an OR in the requirements: Capital letters, small letters and digits OR special characters.

During usual updates? Or during the major release jump of KDE Plasma from 5.x to 6.x?

Have you considered using testing instead of stable or Siduction?

But afaIk without ‘Canonical’s nonsense’, e.g. snap Firefox.

I still remember this nice ‘feature’ of XScreenSaver.

However, as of 2016 Iceweasel is Firefox ESR again.