John Joseph Bachir’s blog
Flixwagon has a minimum password length. This is a good idea for security (the longer the password, the harder it is to guess). Flixwagon also has a maximum password length. This is horrible for security, and I refuse to believe that there is a good technological restriction which requires them to do this.
I’ve written to them asking for the reason, I’ll post on this blog when I get a response.
I’ve been meaning to blog this for a while. I use NetBank, and they recently started to require that I fill in and occasionally answer “security questions”. Here is the full list:
All of my complaints in this letter still remain. I seriously do not have an answer to a single question! I mean, I suppose the piano was the first musical instrument I learned to play… or did I first experiment with a harmonica or recorder? Who knows what my memory will settle on in 5 months when this question pops up again.
I had to resort to picking a question at random, entering a random string for the answer, and saving the question/answer pair in a local text file.
I mean seriously, what are they thinking??
(this was also mentioned on consumerist. Like the customer mentioned in the Consumerist article, my session also timed out while I was answering the questions. In fact, through a series of timeouts and other events that I will not go into right now, I got locked out of my account and had to call customer service— THREE TIMES)
Someone has created a key which opens all Diebold voting machines, using only an image of the key from the company’s own website. link
Here is an interesting first-person recount of what happened when a man dropped an iPod into an airplane toilet:
WoW.com Forums -> I played WoW, I became a terrorist (story!)
