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June 14, 2014, 07:10:44 AM |
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Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont?
There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly easy to implement. |
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BitCoinDream
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June 14, 2014, 08:52:51 AM |
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Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont?
There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly easy to implement. As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack. |
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haploid23
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June 14, 2014, 10:52:56 AM |
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As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack.
This feature must have been implemented recently. Back when I registered in 2011, we did not have this option. People would put address in their sig, but that was more for begging for donations. |
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Bitcoin_Mafia_Me (OP)
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June 14, 2014, 12:21:06 PM |
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Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont?
There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly easy to implement. As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack. I had a BTC address bound to the previous account. Still no joy from on high. No big deal now. At this point it would be an even bigger pain in the ass if the account got restored to me. |
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BitCoinDream
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June 14, 2014, 01:10:07 PM |
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Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont?
There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly easy to implement. As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack. I had a BTC address bound to the previous account. Still no joy from on high. No big deal now. At this point it would be an even bigger pain in the ass if the account got restored to me. If u posted an address from your account, then why dont u show theymos that u can send Tx out of it. Just ask him to provide an address and send him a negligible amount to show your ownership. Then what stops u from recovering your account ? |
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Bitcoin_Mafia_Me (OP)
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June 14, 2014, 01:15:30 PM |
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Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont?
There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly easy to implement. As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack. I had a BTC address bound to the previous account. Still no joy from on high. No big deal now. At this point it would be an even bigger pain in the ass if the account got restored to me. If u posted an address from your account, then why dont u show theymos that u can send Tx out of it. Just ask him to provide an address and send him a negligible amount to show your ownership. Then what stops u from recovering your account ? I already offered. He never replied to me. Not publicly and not privately. |
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joshraban76
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June 14, 2014, 02:31:15 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
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BadBear
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June 14, 2014, 07:03:54 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. |
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Bitcoin_Mafia_Me (OP)
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June 14, 2014, 07:12:46 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. It's no big deal at this point. I've got the new account and people are getting used to seeing me use it. It's all good  |
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joshraban76
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June 14, 2014, 07:17:18 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. Sorry. I thought you can. Thanks for pointing out. OP, then try contacting Theymos. |
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Bitcoin_Mafia_Me (OP)
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June 14, 2014, 08:14:23 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. Sorry. I thought you can. Thanks for pointing out. OP, then try contacting Theymos. Been there, done that. No reply. It's really a non-issue at this point though. But thank you for offering suggestions |
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joshraban76
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June 14, 2014, 08:27:09 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. Sorry. I thought you can. Thanks for pointing out. OP, then try contacting Theymos. Been there, done that. No reply. It's really a non-issue at this point though. But thank you for offering suggestions You welcome, I wanted to help you to the max. but maybe Theymos is that busy. You can also revise what you did wrong to not get this account locked as your old one did. Wish you the best of luck with your new account. |
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Lamigo
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June 15, 2014, 01:24:50 AM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. Sorry. I thought you can. Thanks for pointing out. OP, then try contacting Theymos. Been there, done that. No reply. It's really a non-issue at this point though. But thank you for offering suggestions It seems to me that theymos is really busy all the time. Maybe he should give more power to global mods, or maybe promote one or two of them to admin to share the workload... |
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KeyserSozeMC
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June 21, 2014, 03:29:05 PM |
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You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.
No, we can't help. Sorry. I thought you can. Thanks for pointing out. OP, then try contacting Theymos. Been there, done that. No reply. It's really a non-issue at this point though. But thank you for offering suggestions It seems to me that theymos is really busy all the time. Maybe he should give more power to global mods, or maybe promote one or two of them to admin to share the workload... This forum is build on hierarchy. |
Hey, smexy. Don't waste your time. Time's precious.
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