I very much dislike dealing with 'Security Questions' as a form of user authentication as I'm always forgetting the right answer.
I would like to know if I never fill in the 3 security questions would this disable it from working? If not is there a way to opt out of this?
Based upon Paul Deeds response to another user who forgot the correct answers I'm not real confident there is a mechanism in place to deal with this situation. Is there a way staff can fix this for the user? If staff must manually dig into the database each time you have now created a huge work load for your selfs in exchange for a slight increase in security and much more hassle for the users. I suggest you reconsider this system.
I would also suggest that hubpages at least give us an option of not using this. I know I'm eventually going to forget the answers and if I lose the piece of paper where I wrote them down on it becomes a hassle for all involved.
by HEALTHIO 8 months ago
I forgot the answers to my security questions and my account was blocked for 24 hours. What is the solution?
by Paul Deeds 14 years ago
We just released a fairly big update to the site. In addition to a number of bug fixes and under the hood improvements, there are four big changes that you may notice:My Account Design - we separated all the pages into 5 groups, and revised the interface a bit of many of the pages. We...
by Mike 5 months ago
anyone know how I can do this? appears the way I originally answered them is different to the way I answer them when asked. Tried the case sensitive bit but no joy
by Charity Squid 13 years ago
I'm trying to go into my pay settings link and it keeps asking me the same security questions over & over. Why is this? I know I'm giving the right answers. Is there a way I can change these security questions? and where?Thanks in Advance
by anonimuzz 13 years ago
Do you know those nice 3 questions one has to answer upon registration? I'm pretty sure I answered them randomly (because I usually do that everywhere, thinking those questions are just in case one forgets his password or something silly like that) and now I can't remember what I said, so there are...
by Devendri Gore 14 months ago
I have forgotten my security questions. Can anyone help me to change these questions?
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