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For every site that does this, I have a blob of text in my password manager where I write down Q: what was your childhood best friend's last name? A: pathway-t
by philsnow 11y ago
For every site that does this, I have a blob of text in my password manager where I write down
Q: what was your childhood best friend's last name?
A: pathway-titian-slowly-quiver-kodiak-hue
etc., even for fact-based things like "what city were you born in?" or "what street did you live on in 1995?".
- ceejayoz 11y agoAh, but the anti-pattern folks have a way around that. Drop-downs for answers. Just got this on United.com: http://imgur.com/84l0CdU http://imgur.com/84l0CdU
- ashitlerferad 11y agoHow about 5 random questions, 5 random answers and record all of these in your password manager?
- kbenson 11y agoIf you have a password manager that successfully tracks the questions, then there's no reason to need to recover the password, as you'll just track the password in the same system. The catch-22 of these systems is that recovery questions need to be obvious, memorable and unchanging enough to the user that they are useful for recovery, while also being hard for a third party to guess/research. I feel like for the most part those are more often than not mutually exclusive.
- pyre 11y agoI think that the drop-downs are trying to prevent people from mistyping things and locking themselves out because "Accordien" doesn't match "accordion".