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Re: Using SMS for password reset.

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From Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid>
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Subject Re: Using SMS for password reset.
Date Tue, 30 Jan 2024 21:57:02 +1100
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On 30-Jan-24 9:39 pm, Dan Purgert wrote:
> On 2024-01-30, Sylvia Else wrote:
>> This is really a rant - venting to release some of the frustration.
>>
>> I'm in the process of selling my house, and I need somewhere secure to
>> hold the proceeds. I decided I'd create a account with a bank I don't
>> otherwise bank with, and interact online with it using a live-DVD on a
>> system that has no storage. So no risk of key loggers or other hacks.
>> I'd remember the strong password, and not have it written down anywhere.
> 
> Until you don't remember it, then what?
> 
> Because let's face it, eventually we all forget the password.
> 

If I say I won't forget, you've no real reason to doubt me. There are 
many things that I've remembered for decades.

In the event that I really did forget, then I'd have to show up at one 
of the bank's offices with physical identity documents.

Sylvia.

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