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  #31  
Old January 12th 18, 07:01 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Diesel
wrote in part:
Until I make the decision to login with an account that knows
alot about me of a personal nature, since I've used it to purchase
items, whatever information they are getting on me is anonymous data
that's not very consequential to me.

Actually, the data is tied to you, so not anonymous. Basically
all of the companies that say they only keep anonymous or
unidentifiable data are lying. (And part of the business model
of the companies that collect the data for the companies you
do business with is that the information is identifiable.)
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  #32  
Old January 12th 18, 07:19 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Diesel" wrote

| 2) I see specs, image, etc fine at NewEgg pages. I
| just don't see the price. So why do they need to use
| script? That implies that they're setting different prices
| for different visitors. I don't want to support that.
|
| Do you shop at lowes or home depot? If so, then you are supporting
| that style of pricing. Contractors get a slightly lower rate on some
| material and tools. I like to think of it as a customer loyalty
| program of sorts.

That's a good example of an interesting detail of
human natu If 10 people have the option to look
silly or be cheated, 9 will choose to be cheated.
Your analogy doesn't work at all. Even if it did,
that's no rationale for willingly being cheated and
supporting such a system. You're defending a
scam that you've been a victim of.

And your analogy isn't even slightly applicable.
For one thing, contractors are generally not retail
customers. I don't get a discount at HD, but I do
get contractor pricing at paint stores, lumber yards,
etc. (And I pass that pricing on to my customers.)
I also have accounts at contractor-only stores
where the public can't shop at all. There are varying
deals and varying levels of honesty/transparency
with those setups. In general it's a kind of casual
wholesale contract between two businesses. I'm
buying from them as a business. **

What we're talking about with NewEgg is like
if you went into Home Depot (or Microcenter,
for that matter) and as you looked at items a
tiny camera scanned your face, maybe scanned
your phone, ID'd you, then displayed a price on
a small LED price screen. Then as you walked
on the price light would go out, in preparation
for the next sucker. That's *exactly* what
NewEgg is doing. They're guessing what you
might be willing to pay. Not because you're
a loyal customer. Just because they can.

Where I live (MA, US) there's state law that
all retail items must be tagged and unit pricing
stickers must be on shelves where applicable.
If the price rings up higher, in some cases they
have to give me the item for free. NewEgg is
similar. It's a retail store. If they had a local
storefront they'd have to tag items and sell the
same to everyone. They could have something
like a Members Club or loyalty card for discounts,
but they'd still have to list the price.
The only difference here is that they're online
and it's technically feasible to figure out who
you are before they show you a price. And so
far there are no laws to stop such scams.

** Auto parts are an example of especially sneaky
and opaque pricing. Where I live it's standard for
mechanics to jack up parts prices. If you're
charged $200 labor and $200 parts for a muffler,
that's really $120 parts and $280 labor. 40% of
the parts cost is a scam.

More recently, some parts stores are doing
the same. Toyota was the first I noticed. They
charge the same 2/3 markup for retail customers
who are not mechanics. Then I caught AutoZone
doing it. A muffler/tailpipe assembly was almost
twice as much at AutoZone as it was at an
independent parts store. In neither case did
they know me. And the part was identical. Both
were selling the same part number manufactured
by the same company.


  #33  
Old January 12th 18, 07:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Gene Wirchenko" wrote

| I know that. Many security questions provided ask about a
| favourite. Since that can easily change over time, they are bad
| questions.

I thought it made much more sense to ask you to
provide both the question and the answer. It provides
more flexibility, greater security, and more memorability.
For some reason I don't see that anymore.

Instead of answering your last address or 3rd
grade teacher, you might think up something only you
would know. Example: Your first time sailing was with
Katy Smith, whom you called Kats, at Long Pond. You
also had great sex that day.

Question: Where did Kats sail?
Answer: Long Pond

You'll never forget the answer and it's nonsense
to anyone else.

I got stuck one day with my very elderly
father. His question was "What's your favorite drink?"
He was stumped. I pointed out that the only thing
he drinks is milk. We tried milk. That turned out to
be the right answer, but he had originally entered it all
caps, so it took a long time to get past the challenge.


  #34  
Old January 12th 18, 07:27 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:46:29 -0800, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:


I know that. Many security questions provided ask about a
favourite. Since that can easily change over time, they are bad
questions.



I would say "some" rather than "many. But almost every site gives you
a choice of what security question to use, so it's easy to avoid those
you think are bad.

Choose questions like "what is your father's middle name?" "what is
your spouse's mother's maiden name? "what was the name of your first
pet?" and so on. They don't change over time.
  #35  
Old January 12th 18, 08:49 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 13:27:05 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

"Gene Wirchenko" wrote

| I know that. Many security questions provided ask about a
| favourite. Since that can easily change over time, they are bad
| questions.

I thought it made much more sense to ask you to
provide both the question and the answer. It provides
more flexibility, greater security, and more memorability.
For some reason I don't see that anymore.


So did I.

[snip]

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko
  #36  
Old January 12th 18, 08:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:27:22 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:46:29 -0800, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:

I know that. Many security questions provided ask about a
favourite. Since that can easily change over time, they are bad
questions.



I would say "some" rather than "many. But almost every site gives you
a choice of what security question to use, so it's easy to avoid those
you think are bad.


Usually, most of them are bad, and the rest are not much better.

Choose questions like "what is your father's middle name?" "what is
your spouse's mother's maiden name? "what was the name of your first
pet?" and so on. They don't change over time.


Question 1: Not everyone has a middle name; I understand that
Japanese do not.

Question 2: If you divorce, the answer is now wrong. If you
remarry, the answer is wrong. And what about polygynists?

Some of these questions might seem OK, but they can have hidden
traps. An example of this is "What is your favourite colour?" with
the person answering "red" and being told that his answer must be at
least four characters long. This can also apply to community names,
and there are some single-character community names.


I really like the system of letting you enter your own questions,
but few Websites do this.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko
  #37  
Old January 12th 18, 09:25 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
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On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:56:58 -0800, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:


On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 11:27:22 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:


On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 09:46:29 -0800, Gene Wirchenko
wrote:


I know that. Many security questions provided ask about a
favourite. Since that can easily change over time, they are bad
questions.



I would say "some" rather than "many. But almost every site gives you
a choice of what security question to use, so it's easy to avoid those
you think are bad.


Usually, most of them are bad, and the rest are not much better.



Not in my experience.



Choose questions like "what is your father's middle name?" "what is
your spouse's mother's maiden name? "what was the name of your first
pet?" and so on. They don't change over time.


Question 1: Not everyone has a middle name; I understand that
Japanese do not.



So, enter "none" as his middle name.




Question 2: If you divorce, the answer is now wrong. If you
remarry, the answer is wrong. And what about polygynists?



Being wrong doesn't matter. What matters is that you remember what you
entered. Just use your first wife's mother's middle name. Do you think
it would be hard to remember that that's what you did?


The point is that it isn't necessary to have a "correct" answer to any
security question. What you need to provide as an answer is the answer
you entered when you set up the account. You can use anything you
want, as long as you are able to remember it. The only reason the
choices are provided as questions is to make the answers easier for
most people to remember. So, if you don't have a good answer to a
question, make up an answer. If you provide "Superman" as your
father's middle name, and "Lassie" as your first pet's name, that's
fine if it works for you.

Alternatively, you could even provide answers that have little of
nothing to do with the question. So if your father doesn't have a
middle name, but you know he likes gin and tonic, you can supply
ginandtonic as his middle name. Or if suits you, supply ginandtonic
even if he doesn't drink.




Some of these questions might seem OK, but they can have hidden
traps. An example of this is "What is your favourite colour?" with
the person answering "red" and being told that his answer must be at
least four characters long. This can also apply to community names,
and there are some single-character community names.



Then don't choose those questions. Or if red is your favorite color
and the answer has to be at least four character long, answer
something like "crimson."


And by the way, if you use incorrect answers that you have trouble
remembering, you can simply enter them into a program like KeePass.
  #38  
Old January 13th 18, 01:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Mark F
Fri, 12 Jan 2018
18:01:28 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

On Fri, 12 Jan 2018 04:08:21 -0000 (UTC), Diesel
wrote in part:
Until I make the decision to login with an account that knows
alot about me of a personal nature, since I've used it to
purchase items, whatever information they are getting on me is
anonymous data that's not very consequential to me.

Actually, the data is tied to you, so not anonymous. Basically
all of the companies that say they only keep anonymous or
unidentifiable data are lying. (And part of the business model
of the companies that collect the data for the companies you
do business with is that the information is identifiable.)


I agree to a point as well as disagree. The site doesn't know if I'm
using a vpn, a friends computer, a coffeeshop internet connection. I
could be using a private vpn/proxy that isn't published on a list
that tells the site I'm in vietnam, it has no way to confirm that
without more information from me.

The site is *trusting* that my browser is being truthful and
reporting it's correct version as well as my OS, etc. It has no
independent way to confirm any of that on it's own, without my
logging into a real account available on the site in question.

So, If I take a little prep time on my end and make a few changes to
the information my browser sends back as well as alternate the IP
address it sees, the information it thinks (as well as yourself) is
tied to me is nothing of the sort. I could for all intents and
purposes, clone some college kids internet 'credentials' and pretend
to be them. The site itself has no way of knowing if I don't login to
it.

So as I wrote previously, Until I make the decision to login to the
site, it has anonymous data on me which may not be of any use to it.
The information it's collected might not even put me in the correct
country.

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Old January 13th 18, 01:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Mayayana" news Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:19:16 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

| Do you shop at lowes or home depot? If so, then you are supporting
| that style of pricing. Contractors get a slightly lower rate on
| some material and tools. I like to think of it as a customer
| loyalty program of sorts.


Is there a particular reason you like to quote in a non-standard way?

Some clients evidently don't really mind and happily clean the
resulting 'mess' up on their own. Mine doesn't. Forcing me to fix the
unnecessary use of an additional character myself. The mess btw, is
caused by my configuration to linewrap at 78 characters. *shrug*

It's not a super big deal, but, it is slightly annoying and I'd like
to know why you choose not to just use like most others?

That's a good example of an interesting detail of
human natu If 10 people have the option to look
silly or be cheated, 9 will choose to be cheated.
Your analogy doesn't work at all. Even if it did,
that's no rationale for willingly being cheated and
supporting such a system. You're defending a
scam that you've been a victim of.


I've noticed from reading other posts by you that you tend to call
many things scams when they aren't. I'm not a victim of better than
average joe pricing because I do enough business for them to reward
me. I appreciate being able to save a little dough here and there. I
put it towards other things.

The analogy is a perfect fit, too. Some people refer to it as tiered
pricing. I've heard it called something else, but, damned if I can
remember the exact term right now. You for some reason? expect
everyone is charged the same price for all things, but, that's
generally not how it works. If you spend a good chunk of change on a
monthly basis with a particular vendor, why shouldn't you reap a
small reward for your loyalty? Via a discounted price at the
register. I don't have to shop at those stores, I can beat their
prices usually by going online and/or going to another store that's
not affiliated with them. I choose to do business with them and as a
result, based on the amount of money I bring them, I'm in a different
pricing zone/tier/whatever than someone who rarely shops with them.

And your analogy isn't even slightly applicable.
For one thing, contractors are generally not retail
customers. I don't get a discount at HD, but I do
get contractor pricing at paint stores, lumber yards,
etc. (And I pass that pricing on to my customers.)


Hmm. How is what you're getting not a scam, but, what I'm getting
when I do business with lowes, home depot, or various other parts
supply places here a scam when I get a better price than someone who
walked in off the street that does little business with them?

The analogy holds just fine, thanks. For the simple reason, not
everyone pays the sticker price; some of us pay less based on the
amount of business/type of business we do with various companies. You
claimed that newegg might be dishonest or otherwise shady for not
showing you pricing without scripting, or having the potential to
show you a different price than someone else. How is this any
different than what I do with lowes/HD or what you do with a paint
store? Do you really think a system builder should be paying full
retail for components? I don't. The profit margin is slim as it is.

If you do business with another component vendor known as techdata,
you will be assigned a price tier; and you start at the bottom. The
more business you do with them, the better the pricing becomes for
you. I don't see that as a scam, rather, I see it as a sound business
practice.

As I wrote previously, atleast one repair shop I worked for had the
same mindset and I didn't have a problem with it. Due to the fact the
owner is a bit of a religious nut, churchs got decent discounts that
a normal customer wouldn't ever get. As they were in a different
pricing tier. They didn't have to pay full retail price on anything,
and in some cases, they got certain items at our cost. I'm not a
religious individual myself and don't price my work/parts just like
he did, but I didn't have a problem with it either.

I also have accounts at contractor-only stores
where the public can't shop at all. There are varying
deals and varying levels of honesty/transparency
with those setups. In general it's a kind of casual
wholesale contract between two businesses. I'm
buying from them as a business. **


I have the same thing going here. And, again, I have no problem with
the benefits I obtain that regular joe blow can't get. Regular joe
blow isn't dealing with the headaches and stress of running a
business, I am. You are. So.. it makes sense we should get a small
reward for the additional effort we're putting in that they do not.

By the same token though, if I wanted, I could sometimes beat the
exceptional pricing they offer me; but I prefer to support local
businesses whenever is realistically possible. And, I still like the
idea of instant gratification; I'm walking out the door with what I
wanted, instead of waiting on it, or having to drive an exceptionally
long distance to special order it.

What we're talking about with NewEgg is like
if you went into Home Depot (or Microcenter,
for that matter) and as you looked at items a
tiny camera scanned your face, maybe scanned
your phone, ID'd you, then displayed a price on
a small LED price screen.


Once you've logged in, if you're in a different pricing tier you'll
be provided different pricing. Until you login though, you're shown
the same price as everyone else who hasn't logged in, or doesn't
qualify for the other pricing tiers. I see no dishonesty in what
newegg is doing with this. The requirement to allow scripts to see
the price is more likely geared towards competitors rather than an
inconvenience towards you. Competition for the sale of electronics
and repair fees is a stiff market these days and it's not getting
better. You have tight margins to work with and there's no reason you
need to give your competition your pricing so they can adjust theirs
accordingly.

Then as you walked
on the price light would go out, in preparation
for the next sucker. That's *exactly* what
NewEgg is doing. They're guessing what you
might be willing to pay. Not because you're
a loyal customer. Just because they can.


Unless you have some verified evidence to support such a conclusion,
I'm just going to have to dismiss your claims. I've had a pleasant
experience with Newegg every single time I've used them for quite a
few years now. You recently learned they had an actual phone number.
So...

Where I live (MA, US) there's state law that
all retail items must be tagged and unit pricing
stickers must be on shelves where applicable.


That's fine. Newegg isn't a brick and mortar store though and doesn't
reside in your state. It would be difficult for your state to enforce
it's rules in another state.

The only difference here is that they're online
and it's technically feasible to figure out who
you are before they show you a price. And so
far there are no laws to stop such scams.


It's technically possible, to take an educated guess of who you are,
but, until you sign in, no guarantee that the information is
completely accurate. And that's not including various options
available to myself, and, you, that forges/spoofs various information
they'd be looking for to compare against known information on
previous customers to correlate with.

** Auto parts are an example of especially sneaky
and opaque pricing. Where I live it's standard for
mechanics to jack up parts prices. If you're
charged $200 labor and $200 parts for a muffler,
that's really $120 parts and $280 labor. 40% of
the parts cost is a scam.


I'm sorry, but I consider that the cost of doing business. A mechanic
shop is a sizable investment for the proper tools and support
software/electronics required to work on modern cars these days. Some
parts might cost you less than $20 dollars, but it could literally
take hours to reach the bad component to replace it. Once you know
for sure which component it is that's gone south.

You should be billed for that. If you disagree with the labor rate,
you're welcome to buy the component yourself, if you know for sure
which one it is that's bad, and take your car someplace else, or do
it yourself, if you have the necessary tools and other equipment to
make the repair.

I'm not sure what you mean by jack up parts prices either. Where I
live, it's standard to charge atleast 20% or slightly more depending
on the part greater than what the part cost you. Or, the customer can
bring their own part in, and it can be changed out. Some shops will
still do that, with the understanding that you did the diagonsis
yourself and you think it's this part; so we'll install it. If you
were wrong, you're still going to pay us the labor. And, it's
actually going to cost you more if you want it done right, because
they'll charge you for the proper troubleshooting time and the right
part to replace the one that actually is bad. And additional labor to
install it.

That's the price you pay if you want to save some dough and pretend
to be something you aren't, if you're diagnosis is wrong. Sadly, I
see this quite a bit in electrical and tech work. The customer
assumes they know what's broken so they go ahead and buy the part(s)
they think need to be replaced. Then, when they discover they can't
actually change the parts out themselves, they call someone like me.
Most (but not all) of the time, the customer was way out in center
field with their diagnosis and didn't buy anything useful to fix the
issue. So they can deal with the return policy at the place they
bought it, while I retrieve the proper components from the truck
after doing a real diagnosis of the issue and charge them
accordingly.

In some cases, it's not even a bad part, but a ****ed up
configuration file or something along those lines. If it takes me
twenty minutes to properly diagnose it and fix it, great; but you're
still going to pay me for the full hour. You aren't paying me for my
time so much as you are the knowledge I have that's required to
properly fix the issue.

Granted, I've had a few customers stiff me when it comes time to pay
the bill. I chalk that upto the cost of doing business too;
acceptable risk, especially with a new client. That being said, the
same individual usually calls me after a few days with another,
unrelated issue and that's where they pay what I call the don't stiff
me again fee, first and foremost before I do anything to fix the
issue they contacted me about, and, it's intentionally, expensive.
Excessively expensive, because, nobody likes to be ****ed over. And
some people learn best when it hits their wallet. Infact, it's the
best lesson for some people who will learn no other way.

I'll give you a simple example. I drove an hour and a half to do an
onsite call a few months back for an individual. It took me 40
minutes to diagnose and fix the problem. The customer decided he
wasn't going to pay me for the full hour, since it didn't take me an
hour. I'm not going to haggle over my pricing, I tell you up front
what the cost is per hour and I provide a reasonable estimate based
on the information you provide me concerning the problem. I don't
have hidden fees, and I don't charge extra for the miles or distance.
It's flatrate and the clock doesn't start until I'm in your driveway,
so you aren't even paying for the hour and a half I took to get
there. I consider this to be far more than fair.

I wouldn't accept his counter offer after I'd already done the work.
When I knew for sure I wouldn't be paid, I kept my mouth shut about
some other issues that were not related to the reason he called me.
Sure enough, about three days later, a machine I didn't work on, but
knew had an issue became a big problem for him (He ran a small
business on it) and it finally went down. Had I been paid, I would
have spent the other twenty minutes taking a close look at that
machine as well as fixing another issue that wasn't related, but he
came at me with the wrong attitude and didn't pay me for the work we
agreed on.

When he called me three days later, I explained to him that I wasn't
interested in doing any further work for him, unless he was willing
to pay my don't stiff me again fee; which is $250 cash. No checks, no
debit/credit cards, cash only. Plus my hourly rate. The $250 would be
due upon my arrival, no options.

He agreed, so I went. This time, his bill was $300 for something that
took me twenty minutes to resolve. I could have done it over the
phone, but, since he stiffed me the first time, there was no way in
hell I was going to do that for him. Had he paid me my usual rate the
first time, I would have helped him out for free over the phone, no
charge. So he only cost himself a lot more money than he would have
otherwise, had he not stiffed me the first time. Thankfully, I come
highly recommended for the reputation I have as doing the work right
the first time and not cutting corners. I'm well known in this area
as a damn good technician and i'm proud of that. I think my rate is
more than fair, too.

In other words, due entirely to his refusal to pay me a fair rate for
the work I did, he cost himself $300 dollars for a fifty dollar
repair job. He learned his lesson. He's been a good customer since
then and doesn't even try playing games with me. A competitor
actually recommended me to him for the specific issue he was having,
infact. It's one of my specialities.

More recently, some parts stores are doing
the same. Toyota was the first I noticed. They
charge the same 2/3 markup for retail customers
who are not mechanics. Then I caught AutoZone
doing it.


I get discounts with those guys local to me here, because I buy alot
of parts for various vehicles I either work on myself or have a legit
mechanic work on for me, at a reasonable rate. I provide tech support
to keep his power/electronics/computers going, so he doesn't charge
me his full rate when I need something done to a vehicle of mine. We
have an understanding. We came to that understanding when I
originally charged him my full rate for what took several hours to do
for him. When he found out that my rate wasn't that far from his, he
suggested we do a little 'trading' instead.

It's been gravy since then. A couple of months ago, I ran him a new
240 volt line to feed a new welder he acquired and didn't charge him
anywhere near what another electrician would have. He purchased the
wire on my account at a local supply house, so he got a good deal
there and I only charged him half my usual labor rate, so he did good
there too.

In exchange, he replaced a pain in the ass water pump on one of my
trucks for only the cost of the pump.

I just don't see things the same way concerning scams as you do. A
scam to me is something else entirely, not a different pricing tier
or bracket.

A muffler/tailpipe assembly was almost
twice as much at AutoZone as it was at an
independent parts store. In neither case did
they know me. And the part was identical. Both
were selling the same part number manufactured
by the same company.


That happens anywhere you go, though. I had to purchase a new
ignition module for one of my vans a few years ago. Advance auto
wanted $140 for the unit, and Oreilly (sp?) had the same exact thing
for $50. I haven't had an issue with it, despite it being ninety
dollars cheaper. Nothing wrong with shopping around is the lesson to
be learned there.


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Old January 13th 18, 01:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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"Mayayana" news Fri, 12 Jan 2018 18:27:05 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

You'll never forget the answer and it's nonsense
to anyone else.


That usually works, unless you're close enough to another person that
they'd also know this information and have nefarious intent towards
you.

I got stuck one day with my very elderly
father. His question was "What's your favorite drink?"
He was stumped. I pointed out that the only thing
he drinks is milk. We tried milk. That turned out to
be the right answer, but he had originally entered it all
caps, so it took a long time to get past the challenge.


Which isn't a bad thing. The security question was doing it's job in
that event. You knew the answer, but, you didn't initially know how he
entered it.


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Old January 13th 18, 01:04 AM posted to alt.windows7.general
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Ken Blake
Fri, 12 Jan 2018
20:25:15 GMT in alt.windows7.general, wrote:

The point is that it isn't necessary to have a "correct" answer to
any security question. What you need to provide as an answer is
the answer you entered when you set up the account. You can use
anything you want, as long as you are able to remember it.


And preferably, an answer that nobody else is going to know.
As that's the point of the security questions. To try and ensure you
actually are you. And not someone else, who knows you well, that's
pretending to be you.



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