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You get a unique long pin code when you freeze the account. You need that to unfreeze it. There is some "recovery" procedure, I think you need a notary or som
by mcshicks 9y ago
You get a unique long pin code when you freeze the account. You need that to unfreeze it. There is some "recovery" procedure, I think you need a notary or something
- cespare 9y agoAnd that unique long pin definitely isn't stored in plaintext in the next column over in their database, right?
- gruez 9y ago"don't worry, your 12 digit pin is securely encrypted with md5" /s
- seanp2k2 9y agomd5? They use triple ROT13.
- roywiggins 9y agoAt least it's only in one database, and not all of them, like SSNs are...
- ianai 9y agoAt this point it's about doing that one thing the other 1 million won't. It might be surmountable but do you figure the adversary is going to have the incentive to surmount it?