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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by oh_sigh on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:06PM (#15320314)
How would the attacker know that you mashed the keyboard when answering 'What high school did you go to?' ?
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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by brewdad on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:52PM (#15320556)
Most likely from a "helpful" CS agent offering up the hint above. "It's really weird" or "I've never seen that one before" or just an odd chuckle. Anything an attacker could use to gain an advantage will be used to compromise you eventually.
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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by dllthomas on Saturday September 23, 2017 @01:11PM (#15320662)
Or because you posted about it on HN...
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Re:Post a boarding pass on Facebook, get your account stolen by macintux on Saturday September 23, 2017 @12:54PM (#15320565)
How hard do you think it is to get a bored call center employee to give you enough of a hint to know that it’s random characters?
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