Diners club switches to passwords
Adam Shostack
adam at homeport.org
Mon Jun 16 13:17:40 PDT 2003
On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 01:12:16PM -0700, Eric Murray wrote:
| On Mon, Jun 16, 2003 at 11:50:30AM -0400, Adam Shostack wrote:
| > I just called Diner's Club, and was suprised to be asked for a
| > password to (replace? supplement?) my mother's maiden name.
| >
| > Is this something that Citibank in general is doing? How long before
| > this becomes a standard of due care? Also, I'm curious what the
| > forgot-my-password recovery mechanisms will be...
|
|
| Mother's maiden name.
Heh! Seriously?
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