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What are some of the ways this blows back? Having to answer them over the phone when they're not passwords, but more like customer service gatekeepers? I do th
by RickS 8y ago
What are some of the ways this blows back? Having to answer them over the phone when they're not passwords, but more like customer service gatekeepers?
I do this as well and it has yet to blow up in my face, though it does seem like an inevitability.
- edoo 8y agoI used to do a slightly different system where I'd have ridiculous answers, sort of a word game play on the question itself, and forgetting your secret answers with a company like Verizon can take days to figure out.
- AckSyn 8y agoI do this but instead of passwords like `NGIyNzgwMTEyNDczYTIyNjEwYWRhYWZh` I'd use `BatteryHorseStaple33` to the question: Where were you born. I've never had it blow up in my face with any rep, and I make sure to keep the passwords in an offline (never touches any network) laptop.
- captn3m0 8y agoMy bank (HDFC India) specifically states while setting up the security question that the bank will never ask for these (over phone or elsewhere), so I'm happily using random UUIDs
- jandrese 8y agoWhat is the point of a security question if they never use it?
- greenshackle2 8y agoHDFC appears to have truly terrible security, someone managed to sign up with my email address and a really weird mailing address - like an airport warehouse or something, then proceeded to fill up the card and never paid it back. I emailed HDFC about it but they never responded. Apparently they don't even do e-mail verification.
- telesilla 8y agoI got pretty good at memorising alpha bravo charlie[1] so I just jump straight into that, and for characters like #, * and ! I try and use the word I know is most common, e.g. in english "pound", "star" and "exclamation mark". "hash" and "bang" get me what I suppose are the equivalent of blank looks.. So I have nicely complex passwords generated by Keepass and the staff usually don't think anything of it once I mention I work in "computers". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet