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I agree with you and for accounts that matter (bank, etc), I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them ther
by enobrev 9y ago
I agree with you and for accounts that matter (bank, etc), I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them there.
That said, I have a peeve with one of the standard questions they ask, which is the "favorite" question. Favorite movie, favorite band, favorite song, etc. Besides the fact that I don't have One Favorite anything, does anyone actually have life-long singular favorite things? How the hell should I know what my favorite movie was 3 years ago when I rushed through some account creation process on some random website?
- StavrosK 9y agoThey stop making new movies when you answer that question, thus ensuring your answer will remain valid.
- jstanley 9y agoThat still doesn't stop you stumbling across an older film that you've never watched before, and then finding that you like it more than your "favourite".
- StavrosK 9y agoWait, you answer the question before having seen every single movie? How irresponsible.
- lfowles 9y agoI tried my best but the session timed out before I had even finished one movie.
- bigiain 9y agoSimple - we'll destroy every film in existence after you've asked that question. You get to be "the movie guy". That guy over there is "the book guy". The one in the corner who everybody hates? He's the one who had to use his first girlfriend's name...
- roywiggins 9y ago> I'll generally generate additional passwords with my PW manager for each question and store them there. You have to be a bit careful with that, since some banks like to use those answers as "second factors"* when you call them. So I've gotten in the habit of using diceware-style passphrases for those, as those work over the phone better than pure white noise passwords. *extreme air quotes
- xur17 9y agoI also generate additional passwords, but after reading my additional password over the phone to an agent that pretty clearly would have accepted (it's giberish), I've since started storing what I deem to be a reasonable answer to the question. A random movie for the 'favorite movie' question, random name for best friend, etc.
- roywiggins 9y agoThat's probably the best solution. It would be nice to have a dictionary of answers to these sorts of things (a dictionary of names, a dictionary of cities, etc) to quickly generate these in a truly random way to try and eke a little bit more entropy out of it.
- enobrev 9y agoThat's a good point, and a great reason to try the "make pronounceable" option on my password generator.
- coatmatter 9y agoKeePassXC comes with a Password Generator button in the toolbar and has a Passphrase option. Just max out the word count and choose your new favourite for each account.
- ghaff 9y agoThe ones I love are those with questions like "What was the first city you visited" and they give you a multiple choice of like ten cities, none of which you may ever actually have visited.
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- lurker9 9y agoBruce Springsteen - Born in the USA lifelong favorite song. (although I must say that the Eye of the Tiger comes very very close)
- JasonFruit 9y agoNow we know your age, too!
- bigiain 9y agoAnd a pretty strong hint to "his" gender...