RE: How to authentificate an user via telephon?

["Gary Turovsky" <GTurovsky () tpgstaffing com>]

> I have to say that I think thats a very insecure 
> authentication method.  Our 
> company deals heavily with finding people, and getting 
> information about 
> them, and I can say from experience here that getting 
> someone's SSN and 
> birthdate is a trivial task.  You'd be much better off with 
> another system 
> such as the three authenticating questions someone propsed 
> earlier.  I also 
> recommend PasswordSafe from www.counterpane.com its a free 
> product that 
> allows you to manage multiple passwords in a secure 448bit blowfish 
> encrypted storage. (that should help your users from forgetting their 
> passwords all the time)

Except when they forget the passphrase for their encrypted passwords :)