Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas...
by cycomanic on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:25AM
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> At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created.
Seriously?! Who comes up with these security questions? This is such a useless question, on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account? I would venture a guess most people here couldn't even get the year right (I certainly couldn't). Seems the question is only useful to lock out the legitimate owner.
Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas...
by mimimi31 on Friday September 16, 2022 @08:02AM
(#32864941)
>on the one hand it's insecure because it is a 1/12 chance of guessing right, but also who remembers what month they created an email account?
IIRC, they require both month and year, so there'd be a bit more guesswork involved. I added the exact creation date for all my Google accounts to my password manager when I learned about this verification method.
Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas...
by Izkata on Saturday September 17, 2022 @12:36AM
(#32874789)
Ouch... I just checked mine, and I was right about the month but off by 3 years.
Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas...
by brettgooo on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:18AM
(#32863111)
> Wait a few days.
Sounds exactly like what someone named waitforit would say
Re:Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right pas...
by unsafecast on Friday September 16, 2022 @03:33AM
(#32863233)
The account was created a few minutes ago. My guess is that they did that to reply to OP, hence the username. Still funny though.
I'm not storing cookies when using GMail and at a time I regularly got those suspicious login type messages when the browser updated to a new version. At one point I had to click a link in the recovery email and enter the month when the account was created. Pretty much guessed several times until nothing worked. Tried again a day or a few later and got in again.