You call this security? You’ve got to be kidding me

I just got off the phone with PayPal’s customer service department.

The reason I was on the phone in the first place – because you probably know how much I absolutely love talking to customer service representatives – is that I was trying to be a good Netizen.

I received a couple – not one – of emails originating from Paypal’s service for password resets. This is not a foreign thing, especially for someone that has his email address all over the web. It’s usually some scripting hacker trying to get access to my stuff.

The problem is that at the bottom of the email, there is this section: Continue reading You call this security? You’ve got to be kidding me