[geeks] Secret codes, was US Post Office Website broken again

[Rick Hamell]

Dan Sikorski wrote:
> Phil Stracchino wrote:
>> I have never understood why so few sites simply let you choose your OWN
>> "secret question".
>>
>>   
> I hate the ones that change.  My favorite 
> movie/restaurant/book/food/pet/author/actor can change pretty quickly.  
> So, to recover my password, I would have to remember what my favorite 
> movie was at the time i created the account?  Right.  Combine that with 
> site's different definition of what a "strong" password is, and 
> arbitrary password change intervals and you have disaster.

I resisted for as long as I could. But this is the reason I started 
writing passwords down and keeping them in an encrypted file. Add in my 
own anal retentiveness about not having duplicate passwords and it 
becomes a nightmare to remember. Especially for those lesser sites I 
only log in to every few months or so.

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