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H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d digitalmars-d at puremagic.com
Mon Jul 14 06:49:56 PDT 2014


On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:12:41AM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> On 13/07/14 17:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> 
> >Yeah I always get annoyed by these security screening questions,
> >especially when they don't let you write your own!!! They mostly
> >involve trivia like relatives' names, dates and places, etc., that
> >are far too easy to guess by a social engineering attacker. *My*
> >favorite systems allow wording my own questions, which are along the
> >lines of:
> >
> >	Q: Blue cheese?
> >	A: I got diarrhea.
> >
> >I.e., the question is completely nonsensical to anyone except me, and
> >the answer has no obvious connection to the question without context
> >that only I have.
> 
> They have at least some connection. Perhaps you get diarrhea from
> eating blue cheese ;)
[...]

Of course there is a connection. But not one that's obvious from the
question, and not something you can guess without knowing exactly what
the implied context is.

(And btw, the example I gave above is completely made up.)


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