DaiMai Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 My son has been trying to sign up for a hotmail account. Part of the form asks for a secret question and an answer. Name of you pet? Middle name of you father? Both his answers were rejected as too short. Great!! Now we have to rename our pets and fathers to suit the b#######ds at the almight microsoft? No wonder Linux is gaining such a following. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 its just part of the protection security ...try another name... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaiMai Posted January 30, 2005 Author Share Posted January 30, 2005 But that defeats the whole object of the questions, they are supposed to be things you will remember becasue they are true!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivinLOS Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 (edited) Surely the name used for father was an abbrviation of his full given name ?? Just use that !!! Or select another question (there are a few for exactly the reason of getting a suitable one).. And any linux user signing up for a hotmail account would have the same issue... Edited January 30, 2005 by LivinLOS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darknight Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 please rename your father and reboot your system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Conners Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Microslush just sucks, nothing we can do about it, short of trying to teach users how to use Linux or OSX. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thetyim Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 No need to rename your father. My father doesn't have a hotmail account so you can use his middle name if you like, I am sure he will not mind and microsoft would never find out . Try using " Wilfred" I am sure this will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chanchao Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 This is just silly.. Webmail is webmail and Homail sucks, but it'll suck just as bad when you apply using Windows or Linux or OSX. If you want decent webmail then PM me and I'll send you a GMail invite. Again, feel free to use that from Linux, if only so you can't complain about Microsoft anymore.. (Have 6 GMail invites available again) Cheers, Chanchao Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabal1234 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 My son has been trying to sign up for a hotmail account.Part of the form asks for a secret question and an answer. Name of you pet? Middle name of you father? Both his answers were rejected as too short. Great!! Now we have to rename our pets and fathers to suit the b#######ds at the almight microsoft? No wonder Linux is gaining such a following. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, bravo... Passwords and keys that are too short compromise authentication security. Any security system worth its salt executes the similar validation. Who's the moron now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Boy Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 My son has been trying to sign up for a hotmail account.Part of the form asks for a secret question and an answer. Name of you pet? Middle name of you father? Both his answers were rejected as too short. Great!! Now we have to rename our pets and fathers to suit the b#######ds at the almight microsoft? No wonder Linux is gaining such a following. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, bravo... Passwords and keys that are too short compromise authentication security. Any security system worth its salt executes the similar validation. Who's the moron now? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> who mentioned passwords? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stats Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Well guys at leats they give u free email....Besides Hotmail always have a problem with their web based email...ive got alot of error like error on page..but it does not happens to yahoo mail or any other email Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 Who's the real morons, Microsoft, or the people who complain constantly while they keep using MS products. There's many free email providers out there if you think outside the "hotmail free...must sign up" blinders. Get a gmail invite, or try mail.com where you can choose from many domain names and don't need to have an email address like bob94765734@hotmail.. you can actually have some halfway professional sounding email addy. For the record, McUnix (linux) has given me the buggiest OS' of all. But of course when people go to open source they don't bother to shop around, they just go sheep-like to linux. Taking a half hour to at least consider your options can make your computing experience better. Nobody is forced to use Microsoft. Its just that most people can't be bothered to learn anything else. Whinging is much easier. Oh and to the original poster; Tell your son to use a longer name and just write it down somewhere. Nobody from hotmail will come by and grill you to see if its really your middle name. cv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kabal1234 Posted January 30, 2005 Share Posted January 30, 2005 My son has been trying to sign up for a hotmail account.Part of the form asks for a secret question and an answer. Name of you pet? Middle name of you father? Both his answers were rejected as too short. Great!! Now we have to rename our pets and fathers to suit the b#######ds at the almight microsoft? No wonder Linux is gaining such a following. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Oh, bravo... Passwords and keys that are too short compromise authentication security. Any security system worth its salt executes the similar validation. Who's the moron now? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> who mentioned passwords? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Duh, I said passwords and KEYS. Secret question answers are a form of authentication similar to passwords! You are attempting to authenticate yourself to the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Tell your son to use a longer name and just write it down somewhere. Nobody from hotmail will come by and grill you to see if its really your middle name. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Writing down keys and passwords is also a breach of security!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdnvic Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 Tell your son to use a longer name and just write it down somewhere. Nobody from hotmail will come by and grill you to see if its really your middle name. Writing down keys and passwords is also a breach of security!! Yeah, there's hackers waiting out in your back yard to break in and steal the password to a 10yr old's hotmail account. be afraid...be very afraid! cv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve2UK Posted January 31, 2005 Share Posted January 31, 2005 My son has been trying to sign up for a hotmail account.Part of the form asks for a secret question and an answer. Name of you pet? Middle name of you father? Both his answers were rejected as too short. Great!! Now we have to rename our pets and fathers to suit the b#######ds at the almight microsoft? No wonder Linux is gaining such a following. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Certainly not going to defend Microsloppy - I have to be dragged kicking and screaming to use their software....... much the same way as they have to be to improve sloppy releases in response to the competition (while there is any). Yahoo is a better bet - e.g. MS only upped the storage limit because Yahoo did. Anyhow, simple solution to your original point (if you/your son don't want to follow good password procedure as others have suggested): just type the name twice - e.g. "billbill", "fidofido".............. But - I bet your son is less bothered by this than you are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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