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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by johnchristopher on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @01:43PM (#11481761)
Story time: I have been trying for 3 years to figure out what I wanted to hint at with "If it's not this one then it's the other one" as a secret question. I thought I was a clever boy not choosing the usual predetermined "what's your mother's name ?".
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by paublyrne on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @02:15PM (#11482092)
-1?
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by tripzilch on Wednesday April 13, 2016 @12:39PM (#11489776)
perhaps it's one of the two "throwaway" passwords you were using at the time?
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Re:Namecheap live chat social engineering leads to loss of 2... by johnchristopher on Thursday April 14, 2016 @10:58AM (#11497225)
It most certainly is but... it doesn't work. At that time I had some kind of semantic combinations for passwords but it doesn't compute for that website.
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