Laszlo Thoth ([info]tongodeon) wrote,
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Fun With Secret Questions & Answers

My new bank, Ally Bank, configures a security question and answer for customer service calls. In addition to your SSN, date of birth, and mother's maiden name they also ask you the question you specify and wait for the answer you've provided. This is good, because many standard questions are guessable in a way that user-defined questions may not be.

Ally Bank Secret Question & Answer

A real live human operator always asks the question and waits for a real live answer. This measure has the potential to not just improve my account security but add entertainment value as well:

Q: Do you know why I think you're so sexy?
A: Probably because you're totally in love with me.

Q: Need any weed? Grass? Kind bud? Shrooms?
A: No thanks hippie, I'd just like to do some banking.

Q: The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men.
A: Go forth, and kill. Zardoz has spoken.

Q: What the hell is your fucking problem, sir?
A: This is completely inappropriate and I'd like to speak to your supervisor.

Q: I've been embezzling hundreds of thousands of dollars from my employer, and I don't care who knows it.
A: It's a good thing they're recording this call, because I'm going to have to report you.

Q: Are you really who you say you are?
A: No, I am a Russian identity thief.

Q: For the remainder of this conversation, "How can I help you today?" actually means "Would you like to buy some mescaline?" Do you understand?
A: I understand completely.

Update: Schneier picked this up. Woot.

Update 2: This post got a brief mention on John Hargrave has fun at VISA's expense, a hilarious story in itself.
Tags: bank, prank, security

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[info]bax

2010-04-22 11:20 pm UTC

Q: Your voice is really turning me on.
A: I like where this is going. Tell me more.

[info]bax

2010-04-22 11:22 pm UTC

Q: Condor 86171, Go Secure.
A: Line Secured. Authorization Alpha Tango One. Proceed.

[info]palfrey

2010-04-30 11:48 pm UTC

This has made me snigger, and if I actually did any banking over the phone these days, I'd have to pick this one (well, variants on the theme for obvious reasons)

[info]bax

2010-04-22 11:24 pm UTC

Q: Tell me honestly, Sir: Are you ready to do some God Damn Banking?
A: Fuck yes I am. Let's fucking do this.

[info]cactusthesaint

2010-04-23 12:05 am UTC

A++++

I wonder if they'd actually say "god damn banking" or if they would get too flustered to speak.

[info]tongodeon

2010-04-23 12:13 am UTC

[info]chezmax

2010-05-03 06:09 pm UTC

[info]rezendi

2010-04-23 02:36 am UTC

[info]waider

2010-04-23 07:15 pm UTC

[info]uke

2010-04-23 12:48 am UTC

Have you ever had a salacious conversation with your girlfriend via a relay operator?

[info]matrushkaka

2010-04-23 01:06 am UTC

Since we mostly use email, IM and SMS when we aren't communicating in-person, we haven't really needed to use relay at all, but I have had those kinds of calls in the past, way before SMS, email, and IM.

[info]tdanaher

2010-04-23 01:39 am UTC

Question three is AWESOME.

(Heart Zardoz. Heart heart heart John Alderton.)

[info]elenbarathi

2010-05-01 01:40 am UTC

Word. Zardoz rules!

[info]chemicalpilate

2010-04-23 04:31 am UTC

+1 for the "No thanks hippie" option.

On a side note, I think I have met your biophysics doppleganger. His name is Mike and his kung-fu is strong.

[info]hwrnmnbsol

2010-04-23 04:42 am UTC

Q: Will you SHOW ME THE MONEY??

A: Okay, you're still my online bank.

[info]xtingu

2010-04-23 12:12 pm UTC

Q: Does my butt look fat in these pants?
A: I need to see a photo. But if youre asking, the answer is probably Yes.

Q: Do you have any idea how much I hate reading from this fucking script for $7.60 an hour?
A: I am SHOCKED.

[info]chezmax

2010-05-03 06:11 pm UTC

Q: Does this dress look my ass look fat?
A: No, your ass makes your ass look fat.

[info]grumpymonkey

2010-04-23 01:16 pm UTC

Q. Who wrote the Book of Love?
A. The Marquis de Sade. No, really, look it up.

Q. Why do fools fall in love?
A. Hormones, beer and low standards.

Q. Where have all the good times gone?
A. My pants.

Q. Why does it burn when I pee?
A. You're using too much torque.

Q. For whom does the bell toll?
A. Ask not, for it tolls for thee.

Q. Who's the black private dick who's a sex machine to all the chicks?
A. Shaft. Damn right.

Anonymous

2010-05-01 07:01 pm UTC

Shaft FTW

[info]freeasinbeer

2010-04-23 05:37 pm UTC

tubes, series of

Q: I just the other day got, an internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday and I just got it yesterday. Why?
A: Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the internet commercially.

[info]omarius

2010-04-23 07:49 pm UTC

I do not often type LOL, because I do not often literally LOL. But just now I did.

[info]midnightglobe

2010-04-24 04:26 pm UTC

the potential lulz of this may actually inspire me to switch to that bank.

Anonymous

2010-04-30 04:32 am UTC

Recursive Loop

Q: Do you know the answer to your secret question?
A: I'm sorry, I'm having trouble hearing you. Can you repeat that?

Anonymous

2010-04-30 01:37 pm UTC

Re: Recursive Loop

As seen in "signé furax" :
Q: Do you know the password ?
A: No.

Anonymous

2010-04-30 12:48 pm UTC

'nother few

Q: Who sells sea shells on the sea shore? A: She sells sea shells on the sea shore. Q: Who's my daddy? A: I'm your daddy. Now let me in.

Anonymous

2010-04-30 01:35 pm UTC

Verify

Q: Can you verify your signature for me?
A: Sure it's
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Version: SKS 1.0.10

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oUp6gA==
=GqI/
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----, I think.

[info]adlaiff6

2010-05-02 03:31 am UTC

Re: Verify

You win.

[info]ciphergoth

2010-04-30 02:14 pm UTC

You've been Schneiered!

[info]tongodeon

2010-04-30 02:47 pm UTC

I noticed. Did he provide attribution? His post is written like he came up with it himself, but maybe I missed something.

[info]ciphergoth

2010-04-30 02:48 pm UTC

[info]tongodeon

2010-04-30 03:08 pm UTC

[info]pavel_lishin

2010-04-30 03:35 pm UTC

[info]mstenner

2010-04-30 03:35 pm UTC

[info]buggrit_1979

2010-05-02 06:41 am UTC

[info]pauamma

2010-04-30 03:13 pm UTC

Q: on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "needs a few hours at most to break past" and 10 being "would take longer on average than until the Sun goes nova", how would you rank security questions?
A: -1000

[info]mauhiz.blogspot.com

2010-04-30 03:25 pm UTC

Q: -Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar?
A: -I stole the cookie from the cookie jar!

[info]pavel_lishin

2010-04-30 03:36 pm UTC

Q: Do you speak English?
A: Que?

Substitute whatever language you like, obviously.

Anonymous

2010-04-30 04:12 pm UTC

security question and answer

Q: Your Sex please?
A: Not right now im too god damn busy

[info]perich

2010-04-30 04:19 pm UTC

here via schneier

Q: You can do it, put your back into it.
A: I can do it, put your ass into it.

Q: And you chased it, right? You ran and ran, finally caught up to it and you picked it up. But it wasn't a hat anymore and it changed into something else, something wonderful.
A: No, it stayed a hat, and no, I didn't chase it. Nothing more foolish than a man chasing his hat.

Q: You know Charlie Walser? Has the place east of Sanderson? Well you know how they used to slaughter beeves, hit 'em with a maul right here to stun 'em... and then up and slit their throats?
A: Well here Charlie has one trussed up and all set to drain him and the beef comes to. It starts thrashing around, six hundred pounds of very pissed-off livestock if you'll pardon me... Charlie grabs his gun there to shoot the damn thing in the head but what with the swingin' and twistin' it's a glance-shot and ricochets around and comes back hits Charlie in the shoulder. You go see Charlie, he still can't reach up with his right hand for his hat... Point bein', even in the contest between man and steer the issue is not certain.

Q: Wanna know how I got these scars?
A: My father was... a drinker. And a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not-one-bit. So - me watching - he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it! Turns to me, and he says, "why so serious, son?" Comes at me with the knife... "Why so serious?" He sticks the blade in my mouth... "Let's put a smile on that face!"

[info]maelorin

2010-04-30 04:34 pm UTC

Q: How do you spell your name?
A: I thought we already covered this?

Q: What's the third word on the fifth page of the Manual?
A: Threepwood

Q: Who are Yelena and Channon?
A: My filthy assistants.

[info]night__watch

2010-05-06 05:29 pm UTC

and the obscure reference award goes to...

Hurray for Spider Robinson!

[info]maelorin

2010-05-06 11:58 pm UTC

[info]kengr

2010-04-30 04:39 pm UTC

Besides the problem of being guessable, most of the standard questions at my bank don't *have* answers.

They ask about relatives (I don't have any of the ones they ask about). They ask about children (don't have any) they ask about my spouse (don't have one).

They even asked about sports or school awards (don't have any of those either).

Nor do I have any pets.

[info]tongodeon

2010-04-30 04:50 pm UTC

I actually use the unanswerable questions specifically because they're not guessable.

Q: Whats the name of your first child?
A: Ham sandwich.

[info]kengr

2010-05-01 05:12 am UTC

[info]moondog42

2010-05-01 08:26 pm UTC

[info]lightinchains

2010-05-02 09:41 pm UTC

[info]maelorin

2010-05-07 12:00 am UTC

[info]flamingcat

2010-04-30 04:43 pm UTC

If ever I have a website that lets me define my own question and answer, the only thing I'd want to use is this:

Q: Are you classified as human?
A: Negative. I am a meat popsicle.

[info]maelorin

2010-05-07 12:00 am UTC

lol!

multipass?

Anonymous

2010-04-30 05:48 pm UTC

Q: What's the password?
A: "New England Clam Chowder"
Q: Is that the red, or the white?
A: Dammit I can never remember that!... white?
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