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   Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:20:13 JST Aral Balkan

   Bank: please create a strong password to secure your account.

   Also bank: now, create three more laughably insecure and easily guessable passwords that can also be used to access your account (because irony is dead, let’s call these “security questions”).

   *smdh*

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Sunday, 29-Dec-2024 23:22:42 JST Aral Balkan

     in reply to

     (If your bank/financial institution is as stupid as mine – and apparently this stupidly is enforced by EU regulation – the best thing you can do is to use your password manager to generate a secure password for these. Use the readable words option as you might have to read it back to a human being at some point. If yours doesn’t accept special characters, you could try separating the words with numbers.)

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     Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️ (blort@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 30-Dec-2024 12:17:10 JST Blort™ 🐀Ⓥ🥋☣️

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     @aral

     I actually have answers to all my security questions that are completely unrelated to the question, and thus are pretty much unguessable. For anyone so inclined to use a password manager, you can still keep these answers as notes in the vault or equivalent of your password manager.

     People who know me intimately would never be able to guess the answers to my security questions as they're pretty much random words.

     #Privacy #Security #Infosec #Banking

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