By Will Sturgeon
Published: Wednesday 15 February 2006
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Name
Mike
Location
LONDON
Occupation
Engineer
Comment
Mother's maiden name. This is overused. A friend suggested making one up, but you could invalidate an application by doing so. It isn't that difficult to find it out & it gets put into too many sites.
As a minimum we should be allowed to choose any 5 from 30 authentication items, including at least one custom one. At any one check only 2 would be used.
These need to be fairly obtuse like "name of first dog" or "colour of first car" etc.
Part of security is that the person asking has to know which of the 30, you have chosen.
Ideally yhis should work both ways - You have a check word to ask them.
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