Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now?

Re:Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? by prepend on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @08:47AM (#26490313)

Same with collecting birth dates. It’s just a convenient way to target ads.

I’ve been trying to get Google to stop giving out my birthday for years when I had to enter it for wallet or something. I get birthdays on my calendar from people I emailed once and never knew, or wanted to know their birthday.

Similarly, my contacts have gotten peoples phone numbers changed based on changes made in various subsystems that overwrote the number that I manually entered.

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Re:Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? by jdeibele on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @02:41PM (#26495211)

I standardized on giving 1/1/1970 [1] as the date of birth except where I feel my actual birthdate is required.

With online ancestry sites (birth place, mother's maiden name, first name of paternal grandfather), Facebook and Classmates.com (high school mascot, pet's name) and so on it feels like anything "real" could be compromised. Or give somebody enough ammunition to pretend to be me.

I use fake answers but it means carefully logging the answers so I don't forget them.

1. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/26205/why-does-unix...

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Re:Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? by prepend on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @07:43PM (#26498182)

I like 2/29 as some systems are dumb enough to only bug me once every four years instead of once a year.

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Re:Can We Stop Pretending SMS Is Secure Now? by jjav on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @03:20PM (#26495692)

Recommended. Always use different fake answers to everything, be sure to log them in wherever you keep your passwords managed though.

Funny how my best friend from high school is named yiKooPh2 (not a real value of course).

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