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On 21/12/06 05:47 Robert Spier wrote: > My bank is instituting one of those newfangled secondary-verification > pages (where you re-verify things like your age, favorite color, or > the picture you picked.) I'm pretty sure it doesn't do anything > useful except make it harder for me to scrape my bank account > details. That's hateful by itself... I'd argue that it's useful for defending against key-loggers and other shoulder-surfing trojans. If they ask a random question each time you log in, then knowledge of what you answered for the last question should be of no use. There there is having to enter passwords with the graphical keyboard that uses javascript: the security value of that is debatable, but the interface is hateful.
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