"Security" Question Challenge
I've wrote
short stories about how terrible security questions are. I strongly reccomend coming up with better ways to secure accounts, but hey -- security. In the box on the bottom, I list the questions and the case-insensitive answers that will allow login. Some sites use security questions, an easily guessable and easily social engineerable mechanism that wastes peoples time without a considerable benefit. Detect and pass the question.
How to log in:
E-Mail: [email protected]
Password: pa$$w0rd
Questions:
.....What City Were You Born In? Chicago
.....What Make Was your First Car? Bentley
.....Who did you take to the prom? Nobody
Ugh!
If you're at work right now, stop working with this workflow.
Go tell the devs how annoying these are and tell them to institute an email verification method instead.
Gross!