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I don't know which annoys me more, the easy to guess security questions or those with mutable answers. Things like: What's your favorite vacation spot? What's
by Reedx 9y ago
I don't know which annoys me more, the easy to guess security questions or those with mutable answers.
Things like: What's your favorite vacation spot? What's your favorite food?
Often you're stuck having to choose between something other people know or can figure out (where you were born) and something that may well change over time.
- saalweachter 9y agoI like the idea of trolling people with security questions that you never actually use in a password-recovery workflow. What is your third favorite vacation spot? Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? For how much money would you go to jail for 1 year?
- jgroszko 9y agoI was always a fan of these nihilist security questions: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-security-questions https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-secu...
- et-al 9y agoThe New Yorker published a cartoon along that vein last year with "Insecurity Questions": https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/insecurity-questions https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/insecurity-ques...
- bdefore 9y agoI've just chuckled for far too long visualizing your horses and your ducks. Now everyone here at this cafe thinks I'm some kind of animal murderer.