According to Gawker, a tipster alleges that he or she hacked Mitt Romney’s Hotmail account (mittromney@hotmail.com). The tipster was able to breach the Presidential candidate’s account by apparently guessing his favorite pet’s name. Apparently, on Hotmail, a user or hacker need only answer one question to change the password of an account, and in this case, pet names will do.
We at NotTheWorstNews wonder if Mitt’s favorite pet is the same dog that enjoyed a car-rooftop family trip with the Romney family years ago. We also wonder how high tech Romney is to be using Hotmail. We stopped using that when Microsoft deleted our accounts for forgetting to log in after 270 days. Further, what kind of operation is Hotmail running when we can’t even log into our online pizza ordering accounts without creating a password using 16 characters, including one upper case, one symbol, and three emoticons?And we still order the pizzas online, because somehow this process seems more convenient than making a phone call, but we digress.
3 Worse Security Questions To Choose Than “Favorite Pet Name”
1. What’s your favorite child’s name? You aren’t supposed to choose favorites! And when your second-favorite teenager hacks into your PayPal account, and finds out they’re only #2 in your books, you can bet they are ordering as many Farmville credits with your account as possible.
2. What year did you graduate from high school? Seriously, what is the point of making us create these strong passwords with 30 numbers, symbols, and umlauts, if you’re going to use a question that anyone can (a) guess; (b) find out on Facebook; (c) find out on Google, along with that embarrassing graduation photo you never knew 25 years ago that the Yearbook Club would put online! Because you never knew 25 years ago something called the internet would exist!
3. What street did you grow up on? For those of you out there who have written autobiographies, or are in the public limelight due to running for president, or have ever signed up for Columbia House cassette tapes that are still being mailed to the address of the home in which you grew up, we might suggest that the answer to that question will also be easy to find out. Just like most of these questions that everyone from Microsoft to our largest financial institutions want to know, and Facebook, Twitter, and Katie Couric, (as applicable to your own personal situation) want us to tell the world! “Can you name a newspaper you read. Any newspaper?” Yeah, it’s clearer now, the dangers of publicly answering such a question!
Categories: Humor, Politics, U.S. 2012 Presidential Election
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Which smurf do you find the most sexually attractive.
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You know, the National Bank of Greece might not be in such a mess right now, if they didn’t keep making that their number one security question.
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