Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke

Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by senkora on Monday April 26, 2021 @07:06PM (#26949460)

The key is to generate incorrect answers that are reasonable matches to the question.

Like if they ask for a city, then give a city. If they ask for a name, give a name. Etc.

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Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by the_svd_doctor on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:47PM (#26950851)

Exactly. This is the right answer to the problem. Random digits are a bad idea for the reason noted above.

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Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by karakot on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:13AM (#26952277)

Yeah, and then you have 50 places with all different question where you give incorrect answers lol. Good luck trying to recall it. IMO these questions are the worst.

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Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by throwawayboise on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:44AM (#26952441)

You put the answers into your password manager for that account. If your password manager doesn't have at least some kind of encrypted "notes" field for each account, get a better one that does.

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Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by karakot on Tuesday April 27, 2021 @01:48AM (#26952455)

I do, it still sucks.

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Re:Experian’s credit freeze security is still a joke by dboreham on Monday April 26, 2021 @09:39PM (#26950791)

But not your favorite city. Very clever!

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