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Discussion => Security => Topic started by: cleaverfield on December 30, 2011, 01:34 am

Title: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: cleaverfield on December 30, 2011, 01:34 am
I sent sr a message trying to get them to reset my pin that i never set up in the first place!!!!

This is the answer they gave me!



Sorry but the whole point of the PIN is to prevent someone who gets into your account from withdrawing money, so we can't honor requests for a PIN reset coming from your account. You have about 10 attempts to remember your PIN before it is reset and you are given further instructions.
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: blueangel on December 30, 2011, 01:53 am
How can they prove it's you?

Now you've experienced a downside to anonymity
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: cleaverfield on December 30, 2011, 02:26 am
blue angel i understand that, but how can you put in a pin number if you never had one in the first place!  I mean i have alot of money in my account that i could be using elseware.  I understand the pin ideal........but I never gave a pin or was given a pin......so how in the fuck do i enter the pin and you don't have.  GRRRRRR.. as i have read on the forum alot of SR people are in the same boat i am in, we were never given a pin.......in the first place....and have never been asked to put on in....
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: prsnnknwn on December 30, 2011, 07:59 am
Isnt that pin just another password, for withdrawal, not a numerical thing like credit cards have? System asked for that like 2 weeks ago.
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: cleaverfield on December 30, 2011, 01:43 pm
it says mine has been reset, so now what
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: madamebradley on December 30, 2011, 03:14 pm
I imagine that if it has been reset then the next step would be to create a new PIN and remember it this time!!

8)
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: mseller on December 30, 2011, 03:25 pm
If your PIN is reset you can make the new one by paste this link:

http://silkroadvb5piz3r.onion/index.php/account/make_pin
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: 100% American on December 31, 2011, 02:32 am
lol the pin shit does suck. It was put in place because idiots were getting fished and now the same idiots are forgetting their pins. Stupidity cannot be outlawed or curtailed with rules. Thats an original quote.
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: happytree on December 31, 2011, 04:35 am
The same thing happened to me. I was confused because I read "pin" not "second password", which is how the announcement and prompt for such was worded.

My document I kept the password on was deleted. Idiotic on my part, sure. But I've never had my account hacked.

Lastly, the "further instructions" which SR Support gave in their generic response it appears they're telling everyone were not given. It just reads that the pin has been reset. Period.
Title: Re: WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH SR!!
Post by: Looker on January 01, 2012, 12:16 am
Another reason to use an application like password safe to ensure all passwords are different and random and secured... I never have to worry about what password I set for what because it's all secured in a little truecrypted volume stored safely online and encrypted so even if my computer died tomorrow, or I had to ditch the thumbdrive I use in 2 hours I can have another loaded up and have the passwords for everything and be back online no problem.