This is how it happened. I have an old backup phone that I have used for six years, and I have been working hard, but I have recently reached the age of temperament, and it will get stuck at any time, or when I am playing a short video, I will double-click on the old iron while I am burning with passion. awesome. So I rushed to an event at 618, upgraded the main phone, and used the previous main phone as a backup mobile phone, so that the old mobile phone could come to an end.
The reason why this old mobile phone is so long-lived is because I have a paid account on a website/APP that is not convenient to elaborate on. This old phone to visit this site.
The day I changed to a new phone was quite happy. After all, the cloud service of mobile phones is very powerful now. As long as you log in to your account, photos, contacts, etc. will be automatically synced to the new phone. Even if you miss something, it’s not a hassle to download it again – at least it looked like that at the time. However, what happened next made me realize that even in this era of more and more Internet development, a small mistake can have the same consequences as if you forgot your key when you go out, and trigger a head-scratching cyber lock-picking.
For the first month or two of owning a new phone, everything really went smoothly. But soon it happened: When I tried to log in to this inconvenient website on my relegated former main machine, I found that I had forgotten the password. My new passwords are synced with the cloud, but this website has taken too long to register and is used more secretly.
Generally speaking, not remembering the password is not a big deal, just retrieve your email or mobile phone number. But because this website can’t be detailed, I used extra security measures when registering: I not only set up two-step verification for this website, but also registered a separate email for this website, and set that Email security verification. When setting the security verification of the mailbox, I did not use the real mobile phone number, but set the function of SMS forwarding.
This set of security measures works very well on the original old mobile phone. After all, all the information is cached, and you can log in directly. But when you switch to a new phone, all the trouble comes.
Open the website and select Recover Password. The website reminded me that a two-step verification password was sent to my email. Open the mailbox, the mailbox reminds me that my account is very suspicious and has been locked, and I can only choose to reset the password. To reset the password, you need to send a mobile phone verification code. If you want the email website to send this verification code, you have to pass a recaptcha that detects whether it is a robot.
If it is a general robot detection, it will be fine. After all, I have experienced many battles. Which traffic lights in the United States do not know? However, this level stuck me for an afternoon. The verification system used by this mailbox is not ordinary, it is a thing called HCaptcha. This thing is much more neurotic than ordinary robot verification. Not only is the problem often very abstract, but the criteria for judgment are also very troublesome. For example, he will deliberately give you a bunch of blurry pictures, let you find which one has a boat in it:
The answer seems obvious at first glance, but the first time I did this, I missed three: the upper left corner, the rightmost corner of the second row, and the lower rightmost corner, these three things I can’t recognize at all, in HCaptcha All eyes are ships. The verification conditions of HCaptcha are very strict, and you cannot skip to the next step if you miss one. When Ding Mao finally figured out the answer, the dynamic IP address on my side had changed, so the verification code determined that I had initiated a new login request in a different place, and the entire detection process had to be repeated.
After going through several rounds of the soul torture of “is a half-haired tail a dog?”, I found that the speed of my understanding of this detection program is far from keeping up with the refresh speed of my dynamic IP, and I can’t submit it at the right time. As a testament to a human being, I had no choice but to browse the Internet in a fit of rage. As a result, I saw that this HCaptcha was basically scolded on various user experience websites, and many people had similar experiences to me.
The specific evaluation will not be turned over. This German brother is quite humorous. He deliberately said the experience date as April 1.
After looking around, I couldn’t find any good solution, so I had to turn around and accept the re-education of HCaptcha, while praying that my dynamic IP refresh would be slower. After a bit of cooling, the HCaptcha intensified, and this time there were no real pictures, and it started to make me search for a real strawberry cake among a bunch of apparently AI-generated things.
I don’t quite understand the point of doing such a blatant reverse Turing test, but fortunately AI doesn’t seem to be quite sure of the level of its own image generation. I bit the bullet and skipped it madly, but I actually passed the level, and I squeezed into the secondary verification interface of the mailbox before the dynamic IP took effect.
But when I passionately pressed the “send verification code” button and waited eagerly for a minute, nothing happened. I sent it again and the phone still didn’t light up. That’s when I remembered the text message forwarding. The forwarding platform used in the past has long been nowhere to be found, and an afternoon of entangled with the robot verification is completely in vain.
In desperation, I had to take out my old mobile phone from the cabinet to see if I could log in again from above and retrieve the password. Unexpectedly, after lying flat for more than half a month, the old mobile phone directly chose to die. After lying on the charger for half an hour, I didn’t even bother to turn on the screen.
At this time, I already regret why I was so careful when registering the website. Although this website cannot be described in detail, there are several people around who use this website, and they even use their own real information. For so many years, there seems to be no problem. If this were a free site, I might have decided to give up the effort and just slash and retrain. However, after all, this account is charged with my credit card. Leave it alone, and you’ll have to deduct more than ten dollars a month.
I decided to do it again. After carefully studying the recovery measures for website passwords for half a day, I suddenly found that in a hidden corner, you can choose other verification methods besides email, and even choose security questions.
I don’t actually remember if I had any security questions on this site at all, but I decided to give it a shot anyway. After opening it, the first question was to ask me the name of my first pet. I filled in one at random and passed. This is double good news, and it made my heart that was sinking in excitement again. As soon as the second question came out, it was asked about my elementary school, which was not too difficult.
However, when the third question popped up, I knew the road was blocked again. No no no, I didn’t lose my dream, if I set up a security question about my dream, the answer must be a scientist, just like a liar who kills pigs and calls every target “baby” .
However, the question I set happened to be my birthday, which made me desperate. At every stage of my life, I have had a different fake birthday. I really have no clue other than knowing that date must not be my real birthday. After a few desperate attempts, the system simply locked the security issue, please come back tomorrow.
At this point, this good-for-nothing cyber unlock can only come to an end unfortunately. The last solution I can think of is to send a sincere email to the “contact us” of the website, hoping that they will cancel the service for me. However, in early November, I still did not hear back, and the credit card bill still arrived as scheduled. The last thing I can think of is to spend a couple hundred bucks trying to fix an old phone that was supposed to be harmless. This is of course quite a shame, but in a sense, it can only be seen as the price that I have to pay carefully in these places when I obviously do not have the ability to have a fake identity.
I bet you can’t guess which ones are the real presidents. -CaesarZX
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