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"What's your perfect fall day" does not strike me as a good security question "How old were you when you got your first job" actually does seem like a good sec
by MikeTheGreat 5y ago
"What's your perfect fall day" does not strike me as a good security question
"How old were you when you got your first job" actually does seem like a good security question for many people. You're unlikely to forget it, after a while not many other people will know it, and it's a single number (whole number, most likely) so it's easy for a computer to parse (and hard for you to mess up by leaving out / adding too much detail).
Depending on what you respond to on social media, and depending on if you've got any accounts that use this as a security question, you might want to go back and force the account to use a new question ;)
- NineStarPoint 5y agoThe main issue I see with the “age of first job” question is that there aren’t actually statistically that many likely answers to the question, especially if you have basic information on a person. Compare to make and model of first car, which has a lot of possible options and only slightly correlates to life situation.
- edoceo 5y agoMake and Model of cars are used on credit verification in USA - like historical address, it's likely linked to some previous credit activity.
- mikey_p 5y agoThe author implies, but doesn't make explicit that they think things like "age when you got your first job" are more about inferring socioeconomic indicators about the individual than fishing for password clues. And honestly I bet age of first job probably is a decent indicator of certain economic factors.