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Well, you could say you forgot your password and ask Yahoo to let you log on by answering your security questions.
Or, and this is what I've been recommending to everyone, you could start using LastPass and run its security challenges to reset all the security questions for all your sites. Provide randomized and salted answers to them this time, and don't reuse them. (For instance, "What is your mother's maiden name?" might be 123Orange! on one site and 95pikachu43 on another). Store the new credentials in LastPass.
run its security challenges to reset all the security questions for all your sites. Provide randomized and salted answers to them this time, and don't reuse them.
This is something I've been putting off way too long.
Why is that every time there is a problem with something I have signed up for, the solution involves signing up for something else? Or, more likely, three other things?
The think about the Yahoo breech is that it happened 3 years ago, and I've changed my password a few times since then.
Didn't Last Pass get breached too?
Yeah, I changed mine last August, when there were rumors of a breach, then again in October, when the smaller breach hit the news, and then again a couple days ago.
I'm having trouble figuring out how to use LastPass. Like, it automatically did.... something... or tried to, at seven websites, one of which I have zero memory of ever having heard of before let alone signing up for (and then there is Linked In which I have heard of but remember deciding not to sign up for), but I can't figure out how to get LastPass to do whatever it is it does with any more websites.
Didn't Last Pass get breached too?
Cue panic attack and suicidal ideation.
I don't like password handling systems, because I don't want to give a service control of my passwords. I may not be the most creative in creating passwords, but they're in my head (and in a subfolder of a gay porn folder that should distract anyone poking around where they shouldn't).
You could hide them in a folder named "EULAs". No one would look there.
(...except everyone who just read this post. Don't be criminals, people!)
