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Lore Sjöberg on online bank account security questions. I like the third guy's strategy.

When I was originally faced with these sorts of things, I figured they were ridiculous and useless, so I would answer "jdwhfwhfwopd" to What was the name of your high school? and so on. This worked until the first time I forgot my password and found I couldn't get a new one and had to own up to my "cleverness" to a bank employee on the phone.

Now I answer them for reals, keeping to an internal manual of style in hopes that I'll spell things correctly. (Did I say "St. John Neumann" or "Saint John Neumann" or "st john neumann high school" or...?)
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So where's the ban on driving an SUV to the airport, already? I wanna see some action
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diningin.com just pulled a Verisign, changing all their customers' website login passwords to diningin and then sending out email explaining this and inviting people to log in and change it to something else. Why? Because they've upgraded their security procedures! Well thank god!

One highly disapproving email later I am waiting for the (very very slow) website to load so I can change the password to something even I won't be able to guess, since I'm sure as hell not going to use their service ever again.
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One of my housemates just chewed me out for forwarding a s_______ post to another list, something I wouldn't have done had I known the second list was public (if obscure), with a world-readable archive. Gah. Said housemate fortunately controls said list and is now grumblingly massaging said archive to make said address go away.

The point is that he's not an active member of s_______ or any of its attached communities by any stretch, but he does help police it, and his lack of interest in the subject matter does not dull his hair-trigger BOFH senses.

So, just to remind you that you're in good hands, if you're on that list. The end.

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