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The Ultimate Website Security Question Fail [Image]
Someone at that company really needs to rethink the selection of security questions available to choose from.
Security Question FAIL [9GAG]
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- Published 09/21/11
Wow. Idiotic.
Given one can only pick pre-defined and retarded questions for which the answer can be found easily found i have choosen the following algorithm to make up an answer.
Anser to retarded question = some secret that i can remember + number of words in Question.
Cheers,
Tim
@Tim Van Wassenhove
“the answer can be found easily found i have choosen the following algorithm to make up an answer.”
Use the term algorithm much?
UPS uses (or used) that as a security question for their job bank.
http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/04/the-ultimate-password-genius-not/
This appears to be from Priceline.com I think
I would choose that question and put qwerty12345 as the answer….
Linking to a failblog pic on 9gag made me grin *g*
Does any one want to go PHISHING?