Top Secret

As a blog writer, I have to take extra care whenever important websites (banking, e-mail, etc) invite me to contribute a security question to reset my password. I’ve written about all facets of my life on this site so first pets and street addresses are anything but secret from the public. If I’m not vigilant than some malefactor could reset one of my passwords without my knowledge and create mayhem galore.

For this reason when given the option to write in my own security question, I dig deeply into the obscure to find truly creative questions. Sometimes, this method fails me miserably.

I present to you exhibit 1.

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I set my security question as: “What is your Secure Password?”

Seriously? Why would I do that?

So stupid.

17 thoughts on “Top Secret

  • 12/17/2009 at 1:59 pm
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    Maybe you should try a really hard riddle. That way if anyone did access your account, at least you’d know it was someone awesomely smart, and that he maybe deserved it.

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  • 12/17/2009 at 2:08 pm
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    (10 MikeDiDonato.com points for anyone who solves the math problem)

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  • 12/17/2009 at 3:03 pm
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    Ten points to Tyler for using the internet to void my problem.

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  • 12/17/2009 at 3:18 pm
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    You should use something more obscure that nobody else would know like “How many nipples do I (Mike D) have?” because nobody is going to guess 14.

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  • 12/17/2009 at 3:45 pm
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    As an aside, I just went through the archives trying to figure out exactly how many mikedidonato.com points people have.

    In no particular order:

    10 Tyler
    50 Jocelyn
    32 Patrick
    37 Irene
    27 Chris T
    21 Shamus
    19 Mike G
    11 Sander
    8 HC Alicia
    5 Paul
    86 JonAbad
    43 Shaun McQuaid

    I will be keeping better track of the numbers. When the MikeDiDonato.com store appears, you’ll be able to get great free stuff.

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  • 12/17/2009 at 3:50 pm
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    I really have Zero points?! wow….

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  • 12/17/2009 at 3:55 pm
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    I was surprised as well. If you find any reference to your winning some points in a previous post let me know. Otherwise, I expect an onslaught of effort next time points are available.

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  • 12/17/2009 at 11:51 pm
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    I have zero too, and I’m his girlfriend. Yeesh! What’s a girl have to do to get some points around here?!

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  • 12/18/2009 at 11:45 am
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    What these companies really need to do is allow you to specify both the question and the answer. When they provide the questions “what town were you born in”, “what is your mother’s maiden name” one could easily find the answers using public facebook pages and classmates.com alone.

    In fact, when debating what sort of authentication scheme the Encyclopedia of Life should use, this is exactly what we did to a coworker to demonstrate how unsafe these types of systems really are.

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  • 12/18/2009 at 11:48 am
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    See that was the problem with my Fidelity account. The question I had defined was “what is your secure password?”

    what a waste.

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  • 12/18/2009 at 1:06 pm
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    I have 32 points?

    Wow. I’ve been stockpiling those for years. What did I ever do to earn those?

    Sarah T, maybe we can barter. I give you points, and you give me a cookie? I don’t know how much a Mike D point is worth…

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  • 12/18/2009 at 4:42 pm
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    This may be a good plan. You are apparently good at points, and I am very good at cookies.

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  • 12/18/2009 at 5:06 pm
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    Maybe we can give Mike D cookies to win points?!

    I’ll bake you a cake – how many points? Or perhaps a chocolate soufle? I’m never going to have a supremely witty comment, but man oh man I can bake!

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  • 12/18/2009 at 5:10 pm
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    URGENT:

    Effective immediately, baked goods are worth lots of MikeDiDonato.com points.

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  • 12/21/2009 at 3:57 pm
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    Oh man. I’m going to try to get so many points.

    You’re going to need to break this down for us, Mike D.

    Cookies: ? points
    Cupcakes: ? points
    Cake: ? points
    Cinnamon buns: 500 points
    Pie: ? points
    Tomato pie: 1000 points
    Olive bread: -900 points

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