@cabel also, that and the question about new year’s 2000 don’t work (or I guess all have the same answer) for people under 21. Poor taste AND exclusionary

@cabel Also, there are people making accounts for whom the answer is "not born yet"

@cabel true, but it's a challenge question you'll "never forget"

@cabel Wooooow....

@cabel I was probably filling in some fucking insecure "security questions" form

@cabel ConEd makes me do the Year 2000 one all the time. I was 18 and drunk in a pub whose name has two words and I can never remember if I answered the full name or just one. And I fail it every time. That’s when they ask you to call them. 🤦🏻‍♂️

@cabel So if you're 18 I guess the answer would be "history class”? 🤦‍♂️

@cabel Where were you when you first heard about Trump's indictment?

@cabel In order to improve the security of your account, we need to verify your identity by forcing you revisit three periods of profound personal trauma.

@cabel On that day I was reflecting on the fact that I flew out of Logan on 5/11 and gave thanks that it didn't happen then.

@cabel It's a novel approach to 2FA. "Something you know, and something horrific you witnessed.

@cabel Brought to you by Alan Jackson. Never forget Alan Jackson. Seriously, never ever forget Alan Jackson.

@cabel unhinged security question

@cabel It gets worse. United makes you choose canned answers to your FIVE security questions.

@cabel @Gargron HS senior physics class. ☹️

@cabel
1st step:
"please type in a complex password consisting of at least 21 small and capital letters, numbers, symbols."
2nd step:
"fine, now fill on your first car brand."

possible answers be Like...
Ford, BMW, Seat, Opel, VW.

oh the Security irony.

@cabel it’s just in the general “War declared” “ Men the moon” “President shot” category, depending on your age.

Though I do wonder what will stand out as starkly for the current generation, with so much going on …

@cabel
Omg. Ask me where I was when Elvis died. (Ya. I know. I'm old.) Don't ask me where I was when I first 'heard' about 9/11, 'cause I was there.
Yep. That's trauma.
:(

@cabel Who's still doing this asinine "security questions" thing in 2023 anyway? And by the way, why did any person ever think this was a good idea in the first place?

@cabel Surprised the following question wasn't "What is your favorite sports blooper?"

@cabel We had an orchestra teacher who was a deadpan prankster. He could also be very vulnerable and thoughful. But it was early, and when he told us this thing, one of the class jokesters said “that’s a Tom Clancy thing, come on!”

Climbing that hill was probably a pretty hard thing for him to do after that; I think he gave up and put on a TV, despite generally not having them connected in the orchestra room.

We felt bad for questioning him after that, but I bet we all remember where we were!

@cabel
For obvious safety reasons, my mother has a unique randomly generated maiden name for every site that requires it.

@cabel Aside from the tastelessness of such a potentially traumatic question, I've never understood the value of "security" questions in general. They don't seem to add any real security at all. It seems also to be a mostly American thing? I've never encountered them here.

@cabel I wasn't even alive yet...

@cabel The FBI made them do that just in case somebody said "a cave".

@cabel 🤦🏻‍♀️

@cabel "Where were you New Year's 2000" Not even conceived lmao

@cabel
I was strolling through suu3VmYYWkrqXRdkGiztjXAXQEamErMr
Who was also my “childhood hero”
Strange coincidence

@cabel WTF

@cabel that’s easy; I remember it like it was yesterday: a;el4ti]p7457^DRH14u.

@cabel
Agree.
I was living and working in Japan, and at that time Ididn't understand much of the language yet. I woke up and turned on the TV. I seriously thought it was a movie like Die Hard, until they kept playing the same footage of the planes crashing.

@cabel "Sorry you have to be at least 40 years old to use this website!"

@cabel why is that even a security question? the serious fuck?

@cabel just give me your password

@cabel
They keep these answers in a database. They sell these answers to others. How long until they ask for something EVERYONE really cares about?
#BigData

@cabel they should throw in a "Where were you on January 6th, 2021"