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I usually give a different email address to each service that I sign up to, so I can tell if they are selling my address, but I never thought of giving a differ
by russell 17y ago
I usually give a different email address to each service that I sign up to, so I can tell if they are selling my address, but I never thought of giving a different mother's maiden name so I can detect phishing. It's a reasonable strategy, but I have trouble remembering the name of my elementary school, my favorite color (I dont care), the make of my first car (my parent's or the one I actually paid for) ... However, I will trythe strategy of giving a couple of wrong answers to weed out the fakes.
- amrith 17y agoI used a password manager and synchronize my desktop with my PDA. Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_manager http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Password_manager
- amrith 17y agoThe issue with providing an answer that is a meaningful response is that one can in fact guess and often get it right. Second, most sites that use these secret answers (favorite color, first car, ...) don't have a mechanism to lock out after a certain number of incorrect attempts. My first car is likely something like x78uyipoqA. Call me paranoid!
- Dilpil 17y agoThis is a really good idea. You could have all the emails forward to one master account, and then when one started forwarding spam, you could cut it off.