Re: CHAT: Secret questions - need to went some anger ...

On Mon, 10 Jun 2002 13:16, a. koch wrote:
> That's stupid! I don't think that works nearly as well as your own
> questions...and damn, I don't even know what city i was born in. hah.
> yeah well, definitely not INCREASED security...more like DECREASED.
> Cheers,
> -Aleks
Why should that be a problem?  Give any number of estimations, renamings,
whatever.  Of course, if you're from Eastern Europe, that part of the world
has had some quite major renamings within living memory - dare I mention that
Russian joke about the old Russian asked where he was born?  St Petersburg.
Where he had lived all his life?  Leningrad.  And where he hoped to retire
to?  Petersburg...  And then there's the possibility of giving the foreign
name for your birth city - just think, if I had been born in Windy
Wellington, NZ, I could give Poneke, and baffle anyone who was lacking in Te
Reo.

As for me, where I was born was a: a trade post; b: a mission station; c: an
aid post; d: a government patrol post.  And connected to a few major villages
of that area - villages, that is, not hamlets, and certainly not towns.  And
named after the local mountain peak, somewhere in the Torricelli's - now does
that ring a bell for anyone?  Definitely not a city, so the chances of anyone
guessing off the cuff is distinctly minimal.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

Wesley Parish

>
> >>Remember the thread some weeks ago about people using their conlangs for
> >>secret questions and answers for retrieving lost passwords?
> >>
> >>Today, a site I've got an account at changed their secret-question system
> >> so that instead of writing in a question of your own choice (I of course
> >> had one in Tairezazh) you have to chose between a variety of idiot
> >> questions like "In what city was I born in?" or "What was the last name
> >> of my favourite teacher?". And the claimed reason for this is increased
> >> security! Are safety managers paid for being stupid these days, or just
> >> desperate to grant your family access to your account?!?
> >>
> >>                                                         Andreas
> >>
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