[IxDA Discuss] Mozilla Firefox - showing passwords

Jim Drew cfmdesigns at earthlink.net
Fri Oct 20 17:02:13 PDT 2006


>From: Caryn Josephson <cbz at skypoint.com>
>
>Does anyone have any research or good examples of questions that are both
>unambiguous/easy to remember the answer to, yet not easily knowable by
>either the public or general (former) family members?

Let's see: easily remembered by the individual but not likely to be known by family and friends?  Social security number!

Oh, wait, we're not allowed to use that, are we?  (He says, a bit annoyed that every second credit card company or bank or whatever wants me to give them that number for ID despite dire messaging everywhere that we should never use it for such.)

How about "Who is the first person you ever had sex with?"  That's a question neither family nor friends are apt to know (unless it's them; "eww" if that's family rather than spouse or friend), but which everyone will remember for themselves.

-- Jim Drew
   Seattle, WA




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