• Kevin (unregistered)

    Asking about "youngest child' ( as opposed to oldest) is terrible design. I had a lot of trouble logging into an old account a while ago. It took me a few failed attempts to realize that I must have set up the recovery questions BETWEEN having my son and my daughter... so who was my youngest had changed. My youngest was 17 years old at the time this happened.

  • Joe (unregistered)

    The shipping method might change the arrival date - if I need something before I leave town, I'll gladly pay the 5 bucks to get it here on time.

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered)

    @Bill NoLastName: TRWTF is using your daughter's actual name (which is basically public information) rather than another randomly generated password for this kind of questions. (And keep that "name" secret, unlike Musk.)

  • David Brown (unregistered)

    Also, what happens when someone has another child, and the answer is now not even the same.

  • Darren (unregistered)

    I think the underlining in Michael P's submission masks the real WTF - which, as far as I can see, is that they use Angular but want someone with experience of only AngularJS rather than Angular. Or it might be another one of those where the submitter knows what the WTF is and just expects everyone else to pick it up without explanation.

    I'm also not sure that Cole T's is actually a WTF. Most rewards schemes have a minimum you must hit before you can take the reward. He's 55 points short of the minimum, hence it's still showing at $0.

  • TS (unregistered) in reply to Foo AKA Fooo

    ... and the bank for still asking these stupid insecurity questions. I thought they had finally died out years ago.

  • Bill NoLastName (unregistered) in reply to Foo AKA Fooo

    I've tried that sort of thing before (use the security question as a placeholder for the real unrelated answer), but then I forget what data I made up and can't get in...

  • Jason Stringify (unregistered)

    (One of) TRWTF(s) is that some sites are still using "security questions" based on easily-discovered information.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Darren

    I'm also not sure that Cole T's is actually a WTF. Most rewards schemes have a minimum you must hit before you can take the reward. He's 55 points short of the minimum, hence it's still showing at $0.

    Yes but no, seeing as how it's saying that Cole's rewards are about to expire rather than that the accumulated (but insufficient) points are about to expire. Cole currently has no rewards to expire.

    Addendum 2025-06-20 12:02: Note: I'm not disputing that it's a WTF, just the details of what the WTF is.

  • (nodebb) in reply to Foo AKA Fooo

    My first pets name could have been ⭎턪킯ӽそ훟녱Ꜻﾔ쟿ꓕ혠≏ﮐ캔✹ℭ됌╊ꨧ⭓ﺏ휩뚪➽ⴥῳ쯥ꖨ띜Ί¬ Maybe.

  • Foo AKA Fooo (unregistered) in reply to Bill NoLastName

    Well yeah, you store that info in your password manager.

  • richarson (unregistered) in reply to Foo AKA Fooo

    Exactly! Or switch banks to one who doesn't rely on "security" questions to "protect" their users money.

  • Loren Pechtel (unregistered)

    Yeah, what is it with using names for verification? I have hit that sort of stupidity before. My wife is from China--the land of short names. Her entire maiden name is only 9 Pinyin characters for 3 Chinese symbols. Her mother, likewise, had only 9. Her father had a long name, a total of 10. I do not know the actual names of most of her siblings (Within the family I am expected to use the family relationship as if I were her) but the ones I know are likewise short. I'm aware of one that has 5 characters in one of the symbols.

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