Am I thick, or do other people manage this all the time?
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Just opened an on-line Flex account, and to do so requires me to use:
One Pass number
One Code number
THREE seperate pieces of special information
FIVE secret questions.
All these can be required every time I do anything on line or on phone banking.
And they insist most insistently that I don't tell these to anybody else, and that I NEVER write them down.
Do other people manage to remember all this? If not, how do you remember them all? No two banks have the same system, some use number, some letters, some both, so no universal number will work.
Besides, I have three other bank accounts with similar, but smaller, secrets to remember. Plus several forum log ins, several company access codes, company e mails, medical site log in.........
I noticed a guy at work has a small electrical doohickey that he ALSO has to use to log into his HSBC account on-line!
I guess this will be moved to the 'finance' section as it has the word 'bank' in it.
One Pass number
One Code number
THREE seperate pieces of special information
FIVE secret questions.
All these can be required every time I do anything on line or on phone banking.
And they insist most insistently that I don't tell these to anybody else, and that I NEVER write them down.
Do other people manage to remember all this? If not, how do you remember them all? No two banks have the same system, some use number, some letters, some both, so no universal number will work.
Besides, I have three other bank accounts with similar, but smaller, secrets to remember. Plus several forum log ins, several company access codes, company e mails, medical site log in.........
I noticed a guy at work has a small electrical doohickey that he ALSO has to use to log into his HSBC account on-line!
I guess this will be moved to the 'finance' section as it has the word 'bank' in it.
selwonk said:
Can that be used retrospectively or do you have to havae it when first choosing you passwords...?eddie1980 said:
Trouble with this kind of security is it encourages you to set the same answer to everything.
EG:
Fav Colour: Blue
Mothers Maiden Name: Blue
Pets Name: Blue
To me this does not actually provide a useful level of additional security but does make your life easier.
That's why you use a password safe. When asked for a security question I choose a random answer e.g. J*£(H*£HhH983h~lk4 and stick it in the password safe under security question for site x. Along with it's password.EG:
Fav Colour: Blue
Mothers Maiden Name: Blue
Pets Name: Blue
To me this does not actually provide a useful level of additional security but does make your life easier.
jagracer said:
One fairly hardened but memorable one.Gassing Station | The Lounge | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff