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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by Tepix on Sunday June 26, 2016 @10:51AM (#11981026)
United MileagePlus just switched to security questions that only allow multiple choice answers. Some of the questions only have 12 valid answers. Compare that with even a weak password! Unbelievable.
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by ibejoeb on Sunday June 26, 2016 @01:12PM (#11981596)
I got caught by that the other day, too, and grabbed a screenshot. Crazy. Guess I'll pick my favorite artist from their exhaustive list.

http://i.imgur.com/DWKiy2a.jpg

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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by christianmann on Sunday June 26, 2016 @12:53PM (#11981519)
Did you try editing the DOM?
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Re:The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fi... by jandrese on Monday June 27, 2016 @04:23PM (#11989184)
That is laughably bad. I hope there is some backstop where the system will lock the account hard after a handful of bad answers?
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