MSE News: Customers can't keep track of passwords

oldagetraveller

p=partridge, t=turtle doves, F=French hens, c=colly bird etc. I think!
Of course if you don't know them all it falls flat on it's face. But you'd obviously use something else if that were the case.

propertyman

For banking and your secret lover, use a secure mode in the browser.

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and it has a safe money mode which allows you to secure the link to a number of sites and stops saving, even temporarily, the password.

tyllwyd

oldagetraveller wrote: »

p=partridge, t=turtle doves, F=French hens, c=colly bird etc. I think!
Of course if you don't know them all it falls flat on it's face. But you'd obviously use something else if that were the case.

Oh, that explains it - I'm not at my brightest tonight and I think I was putting the French hens at number two, which makes it all wrong! I'd still have to write down the names, or sing it to myself though - for me, I think tapping out the letters on my fingers is still going to be easier!

anniecave

dalesrider wrote: »

VbV & Mastercard secure.
You do know that the retailers have to pay to use the service. That is why many do not.

If retailers ran more security checks, then there would be no need for such services.
Things like only delivering to card holders address for 1st delivery. If they think something is not right. Either contact card holder via snail mail to listed address or contact their card provider to check with them.
Sure it would slow things down. But the benefit would be less cards to stop and replace due to fraud.

But if online retailers would only deliver goods to card holders address for first delivery, they would most likely never get my business. At work whenever it's open there is always someone available to receive a parcel. So I always get anything that might not fit through my letterbox delivered to work. When I ordered a laptop a while ago, some retailers would only deliver to my card address. So they were removed from my list of potential places to buy from.

dalesrider

anniecave wrote: »

But if online retailers would only deliver goods to card holders address for first delivery, they would most likely never get my business. At work whenever it's open there is always someone available to receive a parcel. So I always get anything that might not fit through my letterbox delivered to work. When I ordered a laptop a while ago, some retailers would only deliver to my card address. So they were removed from my list of potential places to buy from.

See this is just the problem...

People wan't this freedom and its a fraudsters charter.

Gromitt

Surely they could request the card holder address, run this via VBV and if it comes back with 'Auth OK', then ship the good to the delivery address.

I actually had Ebuyer ring me up today at work to query an order I placed at the weekend with Paypal.

Eco_Miser

tyllwyd wrote: »

Oh, that explains it - I'm not at my brightest tonight and I think I was putting the French hens at number two, which makes it all wrong!

If you want the French hens at number two, you can have it that way - makes it harder to guess - so long as you do it consistently.

tyllwyd wrote: »

I'd still have to write down the names, or sing it to myself though - for me, I think tapping out the letters on my fingers is still going to be easier!

I do sing to myself as I enter the codes, probably not a good idea if anyone can hear you though.
I also have a piece of paper somewhere with numbers and phrases and crossings out on it, which I wrote while devising the number to character encoding, which is rather more obscure than the carol example i gave here. I found that since all the codes had existing meaning to me I could quickly remember them without having to refer to my prompt sheet.