Re: Banking on Stupidity

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On Dec 21, 2006, at 12:47 AM, 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... but better....


My one bank just instituted a new second step of security whereby I  
answer three security questions of their choosing THAT ONLY I KNOW  
THE ANSWER TO.

I'm sorry, but hundreds of people know which elementary school I went  
to and what my mother's maiden name is. And most of them are deadbeat  
second cousins who are probably going to be the ones filching my hard- 
earned pennies in the first place.

Pat
i hates "security"

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  • Banking on Stupidity Robert Spier 05:47 on 21 Dec 2006
    • Re: Banking on Stupidity David King 06:33 on 21 Dec 2006
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    • Robert Rothenberg 09:51 on 21 Dec 2006
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    • Jonathan Stowe 14:29 on 21 Dec 2006
    • Re: Banking on Stupidity Patrick Carr 16:14 on 21 Dec 2006
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