Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]So with the proliferation of deep fakes etc... M and I came up with a "family safe word."
Unfortunate complication: IT IS DEEPLY HILARIOUS AND I CAN'T TELL ANYONE DAMMIT
this is like when my boss said "my current password is based on you and it's very funny and I can't tell you what it is"
It's been 15 years and I am HAUNTED by this
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Trammell Hudson@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.
@th oh my godddddd 💀💀💀😂😂😂
Franciscus 
~n@th @platypus I used to have “SAUSAGE SOUP” (Yes, this is a thing in Germany) as “password” for the hotline of a now defunct mobile operator. That quickly answered the question if they can see it or if they have to type it in. It also started every interaction on a lighter note. Especially if spoken with a stern proclaiming tone: “WURSTSUPPE!”.
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petur 😶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@th Our government official communication box here in Belgium allows you to set a custom title, so I set mine to something resembling "yo this ain't no phishing, man" which is how I now know that the mail I get is official and not phishing.
Took a while to convince my wife these mails were really from our government
@platypus
Took a while to convince my wife these mails were really from our government
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fedops 💙💛@peturdainn also another use case for per-account email addresses.
If a "government" mail comes to your address registered with your electricity supplier you know it's a scam.
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Wilfried Klaebe@fedops The amount of spam I get at the address I used over ten years ago on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (and only there, it contains "lkml") is... well, it's a lot.
wb x64@peturdainn @th @platypus you know its real government communication and definitely not a scam email when it's addressed to His Excellency Emeritus Petur Dainn, First of His Name
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Strfnurfn@tbortels Yes, I have a number of firstborn children with names like "Pretzel Hammer Bodkin"
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fluffy 💜@MichalBryxi @th @platypus I once had my security question be "What's a Hemingway?" and the answer was "$2.50, same as in town" and the one time I got to actually use it, the $ caused a validation error
Matt@MichalBryxi Makes a good custom question, too. And the answer wopuld be "Of course I did, so why are you still using them?"
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LP still can't spell Ainmhícon@MichalBryxi @th @platypus My favorite is citibank, who I'm totally going to name and shame here, asking for a variant "secure password" from their paperwork while I was traveling, which I didn't have on me because that's a business card I never think about. Card locked, alternate plans.
So I get home, dig it out, call them back up, get right in to reactivating my card. "What happened to the secure password thing?" "Oh there's a note on your account that you didn't know it, so we didn't ask."
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hendrikstier@sashag playing the system.
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Dan Patch@tychotithonus @th more accurately, Eugene Mirman did -- https://www.reddit.com/r/BobsBurgers/s/3yTVLkkEXA
Kirby@th @platypus the first time I called in to my credit union, they wanted me to set a passphrase for future phone verification. And I was blanking (forgot I could use a password manager for this sort of thing) and asked what sort of passphrase they wanted. "Well we can provide you with a hint. Like 'what's a book you recommend?'"
...tldr I'm ND enough that favorites are Hard (too strict of a ranking when I love all the things) but I do have some 'confident-i- won't-forget' Anti-Recommendations.
@th @platypus ...So months later, the next time I couldn't fix something online and had to call, the convo went
"Hi, I'm having this problem, my deets are [redacted]."
"And your passphrase?"
"Umm. Is there a more specific prompt for that?"
"'Don't read this book.'"
(laughing because. Oh. Yeah. I will never not be salty about that) "[title]"
"Great, so what I see on your account..."
(In hindsight, why is "What book would you recommend to everyone" even remotely considered secure though???)
@th @platypus slightly less story-worthy, but more like OP's: A former workplace had a room with an electronic lock with numeric passwords that changed every couple of months, always to something that would T9 a word. The one time the password was "dragon" and I couldn't even comment on how "They're usually memorable enough but I can Definitely remember this one" in case someone was listening who did know the password scheme but didn't *currently* have room access... had me vibrating in agh!
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Frank Barton@th @platypus a previous ITSM tool (they fixed it, so I won't name-and-shame... and it was 18 years ago) didn't have a "masquerade as user" feature for their tech support team... the team had access to our plaintext passwords.
I figured this out, and changed my password to "PlaintextPasswordsSuck" (or something along those lines... like I said, 18 years ago)
next time I had to call in for support... the agent "let me just get signed in as you... [beat] [busting a gut laughing] yes they do"
About a month later they updated their systems, and forced a password change on everybody (Still didn't really trust them, but they said they built in a feature for their support to log-in-as-user)
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