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

[Phil Stracchino]

gsm at mendelson.com wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 03:09:06PM -0400, Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> The website asks for my mother's maiden name.  I enter that and they  
>> reject it.  I always capitalize that entry.  All lowercase works.  I've 
>> tried to get this changed several times, but it always ends up all 
>> lowercase.
> 
> I never use my mother's maiden name. I think it is listed on too many
> social network sites, etc to be of any use. I always us inappropriate
> responses, but an automated system has no way of knowing that.
> 
> For example, if you ask where I went to high school, I answer strawberry.
> Or my mother's maiden name, I answer baseball. I also never use the same
> answer on different sites.
> 
> It's confused people the times they have asked me for them on the phone,
> but no one has every said, "sorry, we can't accept that".

I have never understood why so few sites simply let you choose your OWN
"secret question".

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