Did you know your grandparents ?

[vernon]

A conclusion that could be reached from the OP's postings is the that the OP is an illigitimate Billy no mates.

 

[vernon]

or Fnaar Sub-Goodbody that even sounds posh !

But Sub-Goodbody is a state of affairs that @Fnaar perpetually aspires to.

 

[Tin Pot]

Got very irritated at work recently by their selection of verification questions for asking for a password reset. Am I alone in thinking this a completely unreasonable question to be asked for a password reset at work ?

Password reset questions are weak passwords that undermine your actual password. We can find out most peoples grandparent's names through birth records.

Also, compromise of these reset questions in one system, undermines them
In all future systems.

I would suggest answering questions with how they make you think, and remembering that response, though the ubiquitous "fark off" and variants is equally guessable.

 

[summerdays]

Password reset questions are weak passwords that undermine your actual password. We can find out most peoples grandparent's names through birth records.

Also, compromise of these reset questions in one system, undermines them
In all future systems.

I would suggest answering questions with how they make you think, and remembering that response, though the ubiquitous "fark off" and variants is equally guessable.

Yes I remember having to use my boss's password once to access something that we didn't have at that point(Word iirc), and she was rather embarrassed to admit it was FO! She changed it afterwards, but she had to tell me as she was leaving the office and our screens would require you to re-enter the password if you left them for a while. Eventually she won the battle to allow us to have access to it.

 

[Levo-Lon]

Edgar is a good name.

Names are fine its when the surname isn't considderd it gets intresting
lad at my mates work is called Wayne.....Kerr..poor fooker nearly as bad as naming your son Sue.

wifes mum was a Bernado's child, do a family tree search its amaizing what you can find out.
all my grandparenta are gone but all lived to 80's 90's and fought in the wars.

or get a ouija board.....

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Claude and Lily
Sidney and Olive

Claude died before I was born but the others I remember very clearly. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brilliant set of names!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[david k]

Got very irritated at work recently by their selection of verification questions for asking for a password reset. Amongst the questions was name of my paternal grandfather. I've absolutely no idea of the names of either of my grandfathers, one died in the 1920's, I believe of malaria contracted whilst fighting in Mesopotamia during WWI, the other died from a mine dropped on a railway station during WWII. He was on Home Guard duty at the time. Nor did I know my grandmothers, one died when I was a toddler the other when I was 11, I sort of knew her but I've no idea what her name was. Am I alone in thinking this a completely unreasonable question to be asked for a password reset at work ?

i was lucky, knew all 4, first passed when i was 19, one is still going and im 41

 

[shouldbeinbed]

By the way, I wanted to name our second son after my paternal grandfather.......Mrs R objected. I can't see what is wrong with Aubrey. Any way we called him Marmaduke instead

We have Elliott as the family middle name. First born son's middle name for his first born son. It is my & my eldests middle name, we're the 2 still living in the chain & he is adamant his 1st son will carry on the chain. We're up to 5 generations as far as we can tell (Bernard/William/Colin/Me/Son 1).

GG Bernards early family life seems interesting and spent avoiding contact with authority, the law and paperwork, we're not sure if his dad/family were immigrants from elsewhere or born here but a bit shady & staying under the radar. Other than knowing GGG was called Samuel, he kept himself off lists and censuses & even Bernard knew him by a few aliases.)

 

[Tin Pot]

I knew two of my grandparents, but not the other two.

 

[rich p]

The only two I knew were my grandfathers, Pat Ernal and Matt Ernal

 

[rich p]

That is such a common name.....I expected something a bit more exotic from you Rich.

That sort of comment really irritates me. I might even go and start a thread about how cross it makes me.

 

[User269]

You seriously think they are going to check whether you're telling the truth or not? Make something up, no one will know.

Precisely.

In fact it's more secure to invent such passwords such as 'mother's maiden name', 'first school' etc. (hope I don't need to explain why) although of course it's harder to remember.

 

[Brains]

My family are complicated, so I only knew 9 of my 12 Grandparents,
My younger sister shares her birthday with her direct Grandfather both were born 05/06/80, exactly 100 years apart

Not only did my parents divorce and remarry, which doubled the normal allocation of grandparents from 4 to 8, as many of the grandparents also had married more than once through death and unusally divoce (in the 1940's !)

Not sure how many I could name though, but I remember I looked it all up for an Army application as a teenager, which given that one was still alive in Communist held Europe at the time and others were born in the "Austro Hungarian Empire" and "British India" meant the form ran to many more pages than was normal

 

[summerdays]

Precisely.

In fact it's more secure to invent such passwords such as 'mother's maiden name', 'first school' etc. (hope I don't need to explain why) although of course it's harder to remember.

I remember deciding to use my father's mother's maiden name rather than my mother's on one site. The only problem is I can't remember which site it was on

 

[MontyVeda]

I knew both of my grandmothers but neither of my grandfathers... but did have a step granddad who was, for all intents and purposes, my granddad. He was brilliant: a work shy scruff with a heart of gold and as daft as a brush. I know very little about my dad's dad... i think he died in the 50s and I don't even know his first name or what he did for a living. My mum's dad died aged 22 (he apparently suffocated in his sleep due to extreme tonsillitis), a few months before Mum was born in 1945. He was called George, worked on the land army in Greyrigg near Kendal and that's where he's buried. A have a picture of him on my wall and although I've never known him, I do feel a strong connection... he's in my genes.