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Whenever possible, I just enter a randomly generated password for those ridiculous "security question" fields. Isn't "your first job" or "your hometown" easily
by d_r 16y ago
Whenever possible, I just enter a randomly generated password for those ridiculous "security question" fields. Isn't "your first job" or "your hometown" easily discoverable via my Facebook profile?
- frou_dh 16y agoIn addition that assumes you trust your entire family & anyone else who happens to know a bit about you.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoSome sites have taken to occasionally asking you these verification questions, even under "normal" circumstances when you haven't lost your password. So it's necessary to remember the answers. And it seems that tools like RoboForm aren't yet very good for tracking this.
- lotharbot 16y agoRight - the security questions are just a secondary verification method. I simply fill them in with a secondary password. This does occasionally lead to hilarity when I have to do business over the phone, and they want to use those questions to verify my identity. "What town did you honeymoon in?" "P7qkn1~f"
- pjscott 16y agoSituations like that are exactly why I try to avoid using the "~" character in strings that anybody else might have to type in. A lot of people have no idea what "tilde" means, or where the ~ key is located. The same problem crops up with ampersands, carets, and "#", for which nobody can seem to agree on a name.