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Old 24th September 2008
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Default A failure in password security

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/200...e-mail-ha.html

A lot of sites try to make password resetting more secure; but what about when you make it obvious to the whole wide world?

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So-called "security questions" (used to reset accounts or retrieve passwords) certainly introduce a level of risk.

Which is why, when forced to answer "security questions", I've always done something like:

Q: Where were you born?
A: Tomato roller coaster Frank
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I just hit random keys, as many as the application allows me to.
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I'm probably lucky, the questions I use, only those *very* close to me could figure out. And most of them are to computer illiterate to reset their own passwords, let along mine lol.
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