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Whenever forced to use one of these authentications, I just wail on the keyboard to provide an answer. My mother's maiden name? Why, it's "sfdgh,jsdzl.kg hjsldg
by badger7 17y ago
Whenever forced to use one of these authentications, I just wail on the keyboard to provide an answer. My mother's maiden name? Why, it's "sfdgh,jsdzl.kg hjsldghs,hb".
- randallsquared 17y agoThat's fine as long as you save it. One of my online financial sites asks for the answer to one of those questions every few times I log in.
- badger7 17y agoHa! I've not come across that before. Guess I'll have to stick to something made-up but memorable from now on :( They'll get an earfull when they ask me for it though, futile or not :)
- dsingleton 17y agoBe careful doing this for a service with an offline/telecoms aspect. Both my bank and credit card companies ask to verify that information when I phone them,
- eru 17y agoChances are you can just answer "I wrote gibberish." and the guy on the phone will accept that.
- klein_waffle 17y agoUnlikely. The person on the phone doesn't have the right to make judgments like that. Furthermore, if they were to allow it, that means that everyone who writes gibberish can have their account compromised by someone who guessed that it's gibberish. Whenever i need to open an important account (say, with the power utility) I make up answers and record them on paper. Simple. Effective.
- randallsquared 17y agoSimple. Effective. Combustible.
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- philwelch 17y agoOr you could just mumble incoherently. http://www.zug.com/pranks/visa/index03.html http://www.zug.com/pranks/visa/index03.html