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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by projektir on Saturday September 23, 2017 @11:44AM (#15320220)
I don't recall the last time I used secret answers to get into anything. I don't perceive it as a valid way to get into an account. But the option cannot be refused... so to me it's just a security risk.
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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by sersi on Saturday September 23, 2017 @06:00PM (#15322003)
I've had to use security answers because I was locked out by systems that detected I was using an ip from a different country and so refused my correct password and were using the security questions as a kind of extra authentication.

The amount of stupidity needed to build such a system is staggering.

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