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Re: PSA: Do NOT use the insecurity misfeature of a “secret question”. #getagrip
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Welsh
on 07/07/2022, 13:15:53 UTC
⭐ Merited by nullius (1)
On this subject of the PMs though, if English is not the first language of the sender (newalias) I think it only compounds the confusion. His post history shows he has been active in the German language boards as well

I noticed that.  But I don’t think it is the problem.

Most people are not actually reading his PM—just panicking, and jumping to conclusions without even reading.  I admit that I myself misread it the first time; please see the edit to my prior post on this thread.
I'm feeling a little silly now, because I've reread it a few times, and I'm still reading it the same way.

Here's the bit I'm talking about:
However, you have a security question in place, what often means lower entropy than a secure password and maybe being easier to guess. Simplest thing I have seen in DefaultTrust was "1+1" with answer "2" was correct - I have frozen it for security.
I've bolded the part which keeps tripping me up. That might be a language barrier thing as suggested, but I'm failing to read that another way other than they've frozen the account, "due to security" giving the impression they have access that a normal user doesn't.