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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? NB : I have no interest in political discussions here (and any will be filed under /dev/null) and belong to nether U.S. party.
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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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25th September 2008
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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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