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"
