Re: best practices for user friendly and secure forgotten password resolution

Andrew Simchik <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.bay-area
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Nadyne Mielke<[email protected]> wrote:

[...]
> Aside from the insecurity of secret questions, there are significant
> usability issues with them.
[...]

I agree entirely with this point. One thing I like to do with such
questions is invent answers to them, such as an entirely fictitious
"favorite sports team."

This of course is little help for security (but it beats something you
might mention on your blog, at least) and no help for usability (even
if you use the same answer everywhere you still have to memorize it
just as you would a password), but it's a fun tip for those of us
whose minds run that way.

- Drew
_______________________________________________
This is the BayCHI Discussions mailing list, [email protected]
To change your subscription options, or to unsubscribe, visit http://baychi.org/mailman/listinfo/discussions
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.