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Terr_ • yesterday at 9:28 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Bonus-rage if the exploitable "recovery" path relies on "Security Questions" you cannot change which are not-really-very-secret and which overlap with the same questions recorded (and leaked) by other companies.


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nullc • today at 2:40 AM

At least those you can turn into covert password fields because they cannot verify them.

Phone numbers they 'verify' so you cant just put in a uniformly random 10 digit number and authenticate later through knowledge of it.

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