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Author Topic: Message To Beginners: Do not use Secret Question to reset account - It locks it  (Read 2897 times)
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March 18, 2016, 10:46:23 PM
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Stopped using secret questions when I forgot a password for a gambling site and had to call them up,30 minutes of me guessing on the line she says to me "Whats you wifes name" and I did not have a wife. Trolled myself back when I signed up for the account and put that down for some reason or another. So yeah stupid story about secret questions sucking major ass imo. Cool


It's the secret question here in the forum not in your gambling site. You clearly didn't read the thread and you are spamming your sig here. Next time dude , again my favorite advice, learnto read. No one cares about your story here. This is a serious security matter in everyones bitcointalk account.

Practicing ones favorite advice might help one become a better writer. Benefit of the doubt helps as well if its hard to understand the context or rational of some ones response. Signature spamming is a serious accusation and I hope you are able to stand firmly on the ground when you lay out the evidence. Look forward to the thread. Smiley
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Security questions(Back to the issue) are a way for hackers(another issue here) to get access to other sites around the web because people often answer the same question/answer on multiple sites. So being that I gave a gambling site as reference,does not reflect poorly but shows people just need to be aware everywhere they go.


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April 15, 2016, 06:27:21 PM
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Been about a month figured I would bump due to it still happening:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1436300.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1398722.0
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1377943.0

Just picked a few from front page of Meta.  You will see it still happens and is a long process to wait to get it back.  I suggest deleting secret question if you have one.  Only reset via email, NEVER secret message as it still locks account.
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April 30, 2016, 03:19:44 PM
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We have been lucky that this seems to be less and less.  Bumping to show  what happens if you do it.  It can take a long period of time and waiting, https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1398722.0 .  This thread show's waiting and it's not real fun.

So if you have a secret question I would delete it, and if for some reason want it left on account don't use it for any reason or it will lock your account.
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May 30, 2016, 03:51:51 AM
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Kinda a monthly PSA of this.  Again has slowed down a lot which is good.  But sadly people are still using security questions to unlock accounts - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1490756.0

For anyone new or if anyone has not read it DO not reset via security question on password, or it will lock account.
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