Edit: I accidentally refreshed the page and it offered alternative questions for ID validation, such as high school of graduation and SSN. But it’s still absurd to expect someone to even humor the premise of the prompt.

  • vinniep@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    108 days of the year fall in that end-of-the-month window where they belong to the astrological sign associated with the month that follows, so almost 30% of all possible birth dates become harder to guess. (Your comment made me curious as to just how significant this variability could be in practice - a lot more than I would have guessed)

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      2 days ago

      I guess it’s a slightly better security question than I thought, but still not great. Nowhere near as hard to guess as something like your first childhood pet.