Alternate Account Ownership Validation

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Title
Alternate Account Ownership Validation

Short, concise description of the idea
Make it possible to prove you own an account other than with an e-mail address.

Full description of the ideaThis is something I've seen come up several times on the Support Board (after submitting a similar request of my own). People have lost passwords to older

Comments

[pinterface]

to the general idea of validating accounts by something other than the original e-mail address.

to security questions and password hints. Just because banks like to make fraud easy doesn't mean LiveJournal should.

[rebelsheart]

agreed. find a method that isn't so easily cracked and I'd support it.