Is it just me, or does the sheer amount of this stuff mean it actually reduces security, since you need to write the things down, else get locked out of your services.
The endless codes surely can't help, and are deeply annoying when you can't get things done because you can't remember the letters 4, 12 and 5 of a "Memorable word" since some of the letters had to be replaced with numbers, assuming you even remember what the word was.
I wasn't impressed with O2 when I phoned to have my wap settings sent through to the phone, and was asked to give my security question answer, although they couldn't tell me the question I was supposed to answer, since that wouldn't be secure. The more secure thing was obviously to have me shouting off a string of possible answers to the questions I could have been asked..
It seems stupid when everywhere requires so many different length codes, passwords, passcodes, questions, answers, login numbers, PINs, your banking history, phonecall history, top-up history and family tree, that I'm going to have to resort to writing it all down.. talk about secure.
The endless codes surely can't help, and are deeply annoying when you can't get things done because you can't remember the letters 4, 12 and 5 of a "Memorable word" since some of the letters had to be replaced with numbers, assuming you even remember what the word was.
I wasn't impressed with O2 when I phoned to have my wap settings sent through to the phone, and was asked to give my security question answer, although they couldn't tell me the question I was supposed to answer, since that wouldn't be secure. The more secure thing was obviously to have me shouting off a string of possible answers to the questions I could have been asked..
It seems stupid when everywhere requires so many different length codes, passwords, passcodes, questions, answers, login numbers, PINs, your banking history, phonecall history, top-up history and family tree, that I'm going to have to resort to writing it all down.. talk about secure.
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