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I also do not understand the usefulness of "secret" questions ... mostly the correct answer would be far too easy, so every one with access to my website, Twitt
by chokma 16y ago
I also do not understand the usefulness of "secret" questions ... mostly the correct answer would be far too easy, so every one with access to my website, Twitter or Facebook pages would be able to answer it (or trick it out of me or someone who knows me).
So now there are a lot of accounts with some very strange answers to their secret questions - answers so far out that I would have to write them down along with the complex password... which makes them completely redundant.
- sabat 16y agoThere are about four ways of authenticating a person, in traditional security-think: something you know, something you have, something you are (fingerprint et al), and somewhere you are. The secret question is an attempt at the first method. However, "what's your mother's maiden name" fails because it's so easily discovered through web sites (Ancestry.com!) and via social engineering.