{"id":11061,"date":"2011-09-09T09:15:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-09T13:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=11061"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:48:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T14:48:41","slug":"opportunities-for-humour-with-your-banks-secret-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/09\/09\/opportunities-for-humour-with-your-banks-secret-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities for humour with your bank&#8217;s &#8220;secret questions&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you do online banking, you&#8217;ve probably been asked to provide additional security checks beyond your userid and password. Some banks only allow you to select answers from pre-selected questions, but others get you to provide both the question and the answer. In a post from more than a year back, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/04\/fun_with_secret.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> offers a few combinations that lighten the mood (and there are lots of funny &mdash; and weird &mdash; suggestions in the comment thread):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Q: Need any weed? Grass? Kind bud? Shrooms?<br \/>A: No thanks hippie, I&#8217;d just like to do some banking.<\/p>\n<p>Q: What the hell is your fucking problem, sir?<br \/>A: This is completely inappropriate and I&#8217;d like to speak to your supervisor.<\/p>\n<p>Q: I&#8217;ve been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from my employer, and I don&#8217;t care who knows it.<br \/>A: It&#8217;s a good thing they&#8217;re recording this call, because I&#8217;m going to have to report you.<\/p>\n<p>Q: Are you really who you say you are?<br \/>A: No, I am a Russian identity thief.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you do online banking, you&#8217;ve probably been asked to provide additional security checks beyond your userid and password. Some banks only allow you to select answers from pre-selected questions, but others get you to provide both the question and the answer. In a post from more than a year back, Bruce Schneier offers a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,15],"tags":[436,836,334],"class_list":["post-11061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-technology","tag-banking","tag-passwords","tag-security"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2Sp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16004,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11061\/revisions\/16004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}