Security Question.

[MarillionFan]

Doctor Who would be much better if every regeneration ate the last one.

You take that back!!!

[xoggoth]

What regeneration are you on?

Doctor Who would be much better if every regeneration ate the last one.

[stek]

I had a nightmare with that question with my bank.

Let's say I was born in Aberdeen (I wasn't).

Bank: where were you born?
Me: Aberdeen
Bank: No. Would you like to try again?
Me: I was born in Aberdeen. There's no point trying again, I wasn't born anywhere else.
Bank: We'll transfer you to reset your security information
Bank: (Lots of questions - about 10 minutes worth)
Bank: So you'd like us to change it to Aberdeen?
Me: Yes. Can you tell me what it was set to?
Bank: Aberdeen, Scotland.
Me: So the operator couldn't work out that Aberdeen was the same place?
Bank: You have to give them the exact answer on the screen.

GF had same issue at Docs, cos she's on a Work Permit and entitled to NHS care, we went to register.

Them: Where are you from?
Us: Russia
Them: Russia isn't on the list, so it won't be free....
Us: Course it is, check again...
Them: There's a 'Russian Federation' is that the same?
Us: Yes...
Them on phone to someone else: Is Russia the same as Russian Federation?
Long pause....

Them: we need to check Russia is the same as Russian Federation, can you come back on Monday?

Should have shown them her old CCCP passport, that would confuse them...

[Mich the Tester]

I had a nightmare with that question with my bank.

Let's say I was born in Aberdeen (I wasn't).

Bank: where were you born?
Me: Aberdeen
Bank: No. Would you like to try again?
Me: I was born in Aberdeen. There's no point trying again, I wasn't born anywhere else.
Bank: We'll transfer you to reset your security information
Bank: (Lots of questions - about 10 minutes worth)
Bank: So you'd like us to change it to Aberdeen?
Me: Yes. Can you tell me what it was set to?
Bank: Aberdeen, Scotland.
Me: So the operator couldn't work out that Aberdeen was the same place?
Bank: You have to give them the exact answer on the screen.

Ah! I see the problem!

[mudskipper]

I had a nightmare with that question with my bank.

Let's say I was born in Aberdeen (I wasn't).

Bank: where were you born?
Me: Aberdeen
Bank: No. Would you like to try again?
Me: I was born in Aberdeen. There's no point trying again, I wasn't born anywhere else.
Bank: We'll transfer you to reset your security information
Bank: (Lots of questions - about 10 minutes worth)
Bank: So you'd like us to change it to Aberdeen?
Me: Yes. Can you tell me what it was set to?
Bank: Aberdeen, Scotland.
Me: So the operator couldn't work out that Aberdeen was the same place?
Bank: You have to give them the exact answer on the screen.

[Ruprect]

Some ideas for when you get to make up your own question and answer

Schneier on Security: Fun with Secret Questions

Q: Do you know why I think you're so sexy?
A: Probably because you're totally in love with me.
Q: Need any weed? Grass? Kind bud? Shrooms?
A: No thanks hippie, I'd just like to do some banking.

Q: The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men.
A: Go forth, and kill. Zardoz has spoken.

Q: What the hell is your ******* problem, sir?
A: This is completely inappropriate and I'd like to speak to your supervisor.

Q: I've been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from my employer, and I don't care who knows it.
A: It's a good thing they're recording this call, because I'm going to have to report you.

Q: Are you really who you say you are?
A: No, I am a Russian identity thief.

[MarillionFan]

Customers of the Gallifrey High Bank were always having problems

When were you born?
When did you last regenerate?
What regeneration are you on? 13 That is incorrect.

[Mich the Tester]

"Where were you born?"

Having tried all versions of "Gorn", "gorn", "GORN" and "gORN", it still won't friggning work.



I actually had to phone up & talk to someone.

Fortunately not a Bob.

Cestus III

[James Tiberius Kirk]

Born???

Surely you meant hatched

[Spacecadet]

maybe thats not where you were born

[zeitghost]

"Where were you born?"

Having tried all versions of "Gorn", "gorn", "GORN" and "gORN", it still won't friggning work.



I actually had to phone up & talk to someone.

Fortunately not a Bob.