Wow! This sure is a pain in the ass! Every time I need to do
anything online these days, every site, from my bank to my cable provider to my
preferred online shopping location, they’re not acting normal. They’re asking
me to enter the most critical personal information to proceed. For my bank,
they want my mother’s maiden name or my father’s middle name, my online store
wants me to re-enter my credit card number and expiration date, etc., and they
want me to type it in for them. Um, isn’t this exactly what a hacker would do?
It sure seems that way to me. And even if it’s not a hacker, there could be a
key-reading virus, or else you could be using someone else’s computer, and they
might read keystrokes too. I mean, maybe I’m being too spastic, but it seems to
me that there’s a better way for them to make sure they know it’s us, and it
would be more benign questions.
What’s your favorite actor?
What’s your favorite movie?
Etc.
You get the idea.
