0wn3d.
Includes security questions and last four of social security for tens of millions.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer company either.
Boilerplate response from them:
https://assets.xfinity.com/assets/dotcom/learn/Notice%20To%2...
Includes security questions and last four of social security for tens of millions.
Couldn’t happen to a nicer company either.
Boilerplate response from them:
https://assets.xfinity.com/assets/dotcom/learn/Notice%20To%2...
what makes it worse is Comcat's quasi-monopoly status as a non-optional public utility with, in many areas, no competitors. your only choice is to give away your secrets to a company which will manage them irresponsibly and then act like victims about it.
"What is your mother's maiden name?"
"bidah6shee8Dahkouju"
"Wait, what, that is correct how ?"
Every time I hear their confusion and shock, I get a bit more depressed that more people aren't doing this.
They never seem to mind when you just say "litmus secrecy ruckus nest reason send", they don't even skip a beat.
Like all good Bitwarden things, feel free to spit^W vote for a similar feature request https://community.bitwarden.com/t/security-questions-track-a...
# 1Password Steps
1. Tap Edit
1. Click "add more"
1. Click "Security Questions"
1. (optionally choose one of the common questions from a drop down)
1. click in the answer field
1. click Create a New Answer
1. Observe the prefilled battery-horse-stable-ish answer
1. Click Use
1. Repeat "add another question" as needed
1. Press Save
# Bitwarden Version 2023.12.0 (15279) Steps
1. Tap Edit
1. Scroll to the very bottom
1. Drop down the select widget under New Custom Field to select Hidden
1. Press the +
ok, cool, I guess as there's no generation option on that Hidden Value field
1. search around and find "Generate" under the "View" menu, because of course it is (I'll meet you half-way on this one, since maybe a long-time Bitwarden user would know the command-G shortcut already)
1. Expand the Options section
1. Choose Passphrase
1. search for the "OK" button, realize there is no such thing, so use the Copy button to nuke whatever's in your clipboard when you started this process
1. Click Close
1. Click back into the Hidden field's Value text area which has mysteriously lost UI focus from that exercise
1. Press Paste
1. Click in the Name field and type the question the site asked you
1. Repeat as needed for other questions
1. Press Save
So, yeah, "akshully" one can do this with a vivid imagination and a piece of paper, too, but let's not pretend those two experiences are in the same universe as each other
Using a different made up mother's maiden name at each site is a good idea, but you can use short names that are easy to pronounce and spell for that to get the security benefits without drawing out the time you have to spend with support.
"What is your mother's maiden name?"
"Oh, some random collection of letters and numbers... I think there was an a and a d in it?"
"Ah, okay, what info or money do you want?"
The PDF could have been authored at any time.
Looks like the created date embedded in the metadata is as follows:
2023-12-18T21:21:19.000Z
Created with MS Word. But even that isn't definitive.