{"id":3418,"date":"2016-02-29T09:46:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=3418"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:52:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T08:52:23","slug":"security-question-sadness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/02\/29\/security-question-sadness\/","title":{"rendered":"Security question sadness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not only does United Airlines require a set of security questions \u2014 which security experts have literally been advising against for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/essays\/archives\/2005\/02\/the_curse_of_the_sec.html\"><em>decades<\/em><\/a> now \u2014 but they actually manage to <em>weaken<\/em> the secret question system itself by not letting you choose your own answer. You can only pick from a pre-approved list of answers:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2016\/united-security-questions.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2016\/united-security-questions.png\" width=\"944\" height=\"713\" class \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United&#8217;s security &#8220;enhancements&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I can&#8217;t even.<\/p>\n<p>(PS, FYI: <code>document.getElementById('Questions_0__AnswerKey').options[Math.floor(Math.random()*document.getElementById('Questions_0__AnswerKey').length)].text<\/code>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not only does United Airlines require a set of security questions \u2014 which security experts have literally been advising against for decades now \u2014 but they actually manage to weaken the secret question system itself by not letting you choose your own answer. You can only pick from a pre-approved list of answers: I can&#8217;t &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2016\/02\/29\/security-question-sadness\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Security question sadness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3418"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3421,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3418\/revisions\/3421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}