On Monday 19 of December 2011 10:36:33 Jerome Baum wrote: > On 2011-12-19 10:31, Jerome Baum wrote: > > My understanding is that name + DoB + place of birth together are > > unique. Sometimes. In theory. > > Oh but that doesn't mean we should all add our DoB to our UIDs now. > Remember that your DoB is actually secret and only your credit card > company is meant to know it. You know, to verify the person speaking on > the phone is really you...
At least we're getting there. Don't know about the EU Data Protection directive, but the Polish one says specifically, that login reuse is verbotten. > (Hmm, they also asked for my account number, which I suppose is also > secret and not at all printed on all my invoices. Only a few key people, > like everyone ever involved with a wire between them and me, know the > account number. I suppose this is getting old...) Yeah, the kind of "protections" banks use is funny. But then, what can they do when people forget their passwords 5 minutes after they set them or use the same password on facebook and their bank... If only the "horse battery staple correct" method was taught as *the* method for creating and remembering passwords... -- Hubert Kario QBS - Quality Business Software 02-656 Warszawa, ul. Ksawerów 30/85 tel. +48 (22) 646-61-51, 646-74-24 www.qbs.com.pl
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