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>requires the attacker to know you do this

Nah, "well, it kinda looks like random characters" is information a support rep will give you.

Welcome to social engineering and info escalation.



If the support rep is just giving away enough info to figure this out, there is nothing you can do to protect yourself against the company's policies.


Yes, which is why social engineering is going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better.




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