Saturday September 29, 2007 Random ramblings
Saturday September 29, 2007 About Me Howto, aka Insecurity Questions
My place of birth is a matter of public record, not too hard to find - if you know even a little about me, you'll likely know to start looking in the Netherlands. If you find that record, you'll know my mother's maiden name too (it's a good Wexford name).
Details of various places I've lived in or near, and all the schools I've gone to, may be on-file with various companies, through my CV. You can probably figure out a good deal of it with a mild googling.
My dog's name is known to a good few friends, all neighbours and many people in my family's town - just go to the green by Woodside and wait for my mother to walk him, and you'll hear her call him "Buddy". Oops, let that cat out of the bag! Speaking of cats, my family's long-dead cat was called "Cuddles", and my mother's been minding a stray we call "Bonnie" for years now.
I don't really follow football (it was far more fun playing it..), so I don't really have a favourite team now, but I did have a big poster of Johan Cruyff in my bedroom as a boy (you'll take a guess that that must have been early 80s, from your visit to NLs radio city).
Don't really have any favourite colour, but if you've seen me around, you'll know my clothes tend to be a certain colour (a darker shade of it, often).
My favourite food is, is... Well, that's too difficult to answer! (As someone pointed out, you'd have to never eat anything new again to answer that one and have a hope of recalling your answer later).
On a different subject, what's with those really dumb sites which let you change your password based on very unsecret personal details? For what it's worth, I will try avoid doing business with you, if possible.. It's not worth the hassle of remembering invented answers (National-Lottery.co.uk lost potential £6 today cause of such dumb questions).
End the madness 
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Usually to change the password you have to follow a link thats sent to you in an email. Now it's really inconvient to have some random bozo keep clicking the "forgotten password" link and sneding you hundreds of emails (often with a new password in each one!) so they add an extra layer of security over the top to make it so not just /anybody/ can change your password. If they figure out the insanely stupid question, then yeah they can change your password, but only /you/ get it so they can't use it. it's protecting you from an annoyance, not your real account.
Posted by Perry Lorier on September 29, 2007 at 11:29 AM IST #
a) And how do such sites cope with lost/changed email addresses? (Often, they fallback to these dumb insecurity questions, no?)
b) Email is dreadfully insecure
Posted by Paul Jakma on September 29, 2007 at 12:50 PM IST #