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Rant: I hate cellphones
4wd:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbIQNJqOrM
-Paul Keith (February 18, 2011, 10:59 AM)
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That explains it then, I've always selected to use my own security question on any account that gives you the option.
Maybe that also highlights how insecure the 'standard' security questions are.
<Slightly OT>
The Australian Governments' Medicare site asks for the answers to five (5) security questions which it will randomly ask for the answers to two of at random times as you access online. Good idea except I can only remember the answers to 2 or 3 of them, so I have to keep refreshing pages occasionally until the right questions come up. If they let me choose my own I'd have a better chance of remembering.
zridling:
Interesting experiment -- If you want to know what Google knows about you, even with AdBlock installed, go here:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view
They know I'm an old guy (49) who likes music, but that's about it. Good thing they haven't visited my basement.
kartal:
Interesting experiment -- If you want to know what Google knows about you, even with AdBlock installed, go here:
http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/view
They know I'm an old guy (49) who likes music, but that's about it. Good thing they haven't visited my basement.
-zridling (February 18, 2011, 07:21 PM)
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I tried it
"
Request blocked by Privoxy: Path matches generic block pattern.
See why this block applies or go to http://www.google.com/ads/preferences?hl=en anyway.
"
4wd:
They seem to know stuff all about me, I just go straight to the page kartal mentions.
I guess that means that Adblock+ and OptimizeGoogle are working plus I don't allow 3rd party cookies or keep any cookies beyond the current session.
Renegade:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgbIQNJqOrM
-Paul Keith (February 18, 2011, 10:59 AM)
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That explains it then, I've always selected to use my own security question on any account that gives you the option.
Maybe that also highlights how insecure the 'standard' security questions are.
<Slightly OT>
The Australian Governments' Medicare site asks for the answers to five (5) security questions which it will randomly ask for the answers to two of at random times as you access online. Good idea except I can only remember the answers to 2 or 3 of them, so I have to keep refreshing pages occasionally until the right questions come up. If they let me choose my own I'd have a better chance of remembering.
-4wd (February 18, 2011, 12:22 PM)
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Security questions are simply useless most of the time except for adding an extra layer of failure.
What street did you live on?
Real Answer: Sunny Street
Wrong Answers:
sunny street
sunny
sunny st
sunny st.
Sunny St.
etc.
Just how does that help? It needs to be semantic and not syntactic.
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