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Its like a rash

December 8th, 2006 at 04:33 am

Well, its about as pleasant. I've been noticing that all my financial websites (banks, brokerage, 403B, IRAs, US Treasury) have been doing the same thing - beefing up their security.

Everybody's splitting the panels between the username and the password, forcing me to add characters to my password, forcing me to give the answers to stock questions that mean nothing to me (guys, how about me coming up with wacky questions, which I then answer...I can't answer questions about children's names when I don't have children!). My password has morphed into three. My bank is gripping about the fact that I didn't give them a cell phone number. I don't have a cell phone number!!!

I understand it, what with the advent of WiFi and the data theft of the past few months but man it is inconvenient beyond inconvenient. I'm just going to get my account locked up.

Saving log - 0$
Spending log - 1.50$ coffee + 8$ lunch + 4$ groceries (bag of salad for $1, broccoli, chicken stock ... warning - canned chicken stock will go up after Christmas!

3 Responses to “Its like a rash”

  1. retire@50 Says:
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    I totally agree, I have pages of notes about answers to these stupid questions. I almost tempted to going back to writing checks or using the phone Smile

  2. mairgrif Says:
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    While this is a pain, and they are not going about it necessarily in the best way, this is a federal requirement that they have a system like this in place by december 31st.

  3. Thrifty Ray Says:
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    Ive encountered the same problem where I could only answer 1 of three security questions...ridiculous!

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