Shoutbox

Hey, i've seen my friend has his secret question as "No Hacking" and he wont tell me how he did it.
Does anyone know how its done? Thx
EDIT: Talking about Hotmail

It's a question that you add when you're creating an account with hotmail. During the process it asks you to choose a secret question or create your own. He's obviously just created his own that says 'No Hacking' which he can only ever know the answer to, which seems pretty stupid to me. But that's how you do it.

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Originally posted by traxor
which seems pretty stupid to me

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He asked how it's done, not your personal opinion on what someone else chose as their security question.

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Originally posted by xjup

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Originally posted by traxor
which seems pretty stupid to me

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He asked how it's done, not your personal opinion on what someone else chose as their security question.

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Yes but we're also entitled to give advice on the matter, urging people against doing things that might cause trouble in the future. For example, what if they forget the answer and can't get into their account ever again when they really need to? That's the way people post on this forum, sorry if I seemed a bit rash.

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Originally posted by traxor
For example, what if they forget the answer and can't get into their account ever again when they really need to?

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I set silly questions with totally random strings as answer all the time . It's pretty easy to "crack" most default questions with a bit of social engineering. If i want an answer which can't be socially engineered i might as well use a password as answer, but that defeats the point of having a security question, so i choose to not use the security question at all and fill in giberish.

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Originally posted by traxor
He's obviously just created his own that says 'No Hacking' which he can only ever know the answer to, which seems pretty stupid to me.

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Actually, he's using the secret question for its intended purpose

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by traxor
For example, what if they forget the answer and can't get into their account ever again when they really need to?

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I set silly questions with totally random strings as answer all the time . It's pretty easy to "crack" most default questions with a bit of social engineering. If i want an answer which can't be socially engineered i might as well use a password as answer, but that defeats the point of having a security question, so i choose to not use the security question at all and fill in giberish.

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x2

I use cryptic clues in mine. For example, 1FemCous + #[lolcat] would be name of first female cousin with the name capitalised followed by the first 6 hex digits of the MD5 Hash of lolcat .

Anyway, that's a side thing. I think Microsoft / MSN provide default security questions when registering, however if you go into your options / settings / etc (I don't really use their web stuff anymore) then you can customise it here.