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> You know the type: "What's your favourite animal?", and other easily-guessed and easily obtained information hackers can use. > I always put in some gibberis

> You know the type: "What's your favourite animal?", and other easily-guessed and easily obtained information hackers can use. > I always put in some gibberish by mashing the keyboard and make sure to record them somewhere safe just in case I need a password reset. I memorise my password and that should be fine, right? But then you have to trust that "somewhere safe" is actually as safe as you think it is. One alternative is to use them like mnemonic code phrases. So perhaps your answer to "What's your favourite animal?" is not really an animal, but maybe Cthulhu, so as a (somewhat overkill but illustrative) example maybe the answer would be "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn"

nobody9999 5y ago
>One alternative is to use them like mnemonic code phrases. So perhaps your answer to "What's your favourite animal?" is not really an animal, but maybe Cthulhu, so maybe the answer would be "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" I'd go further than that and use stuff like that for actual passwords, but with a twist. Using that sort of thing for such questions is good, but take something you know well, like a song lyric or line from a poem and then change it subtly. For example: Forty score and eleventy years ago, our foremothers brought forth a new abomination. Since you're the one making this stuff up, it's easy to remember, both for passwords and for those "secret" questions. Those are pretty much endless in possibility too: In the town where babby formed, there lived a gal who mailed some trees. Ask not what who has done it in your country. Ask which Lulu can do it with you. And on and on. The only real requirement is that you know whatever it is you're adapting well. Whether that be song lyrics, movie lines, poesy, etc. I prefer song lyrics myself, since they're usually easier to remember, and when presented with the need to recall it as a password/"secret" question, the modifications made come right back. I imagine that wouldn't work for everyone, but it works well for me, and would also work for others. Good luck!
- TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
  Finally make those eggcorns useful! In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease".[1] An eggcorn can be described as an intra-lingual phono-semantic matching, a matching in which the intended word and substitute are from the same language. Together with other types of same-sounding phrases, eggcorns are sometimes also referred to "oronyms". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn
smegger001 5y ago
in my experience this inevitably be on form feild where pasting isn't allowed and you cant see what you are typing and will be case sensitive but not inform you of that. and you will get locked out on attempt 3.

nobody9999 5y ago

>One alternative is to use them like mnemonic code phrases. So perhaps your answer to "What's your favourite animal?" is not really an animal, but maybe Cthulhu, so maybe the answer would be "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" I'd go further than that and use stuff like that for actual passwords, but with a twist. Using that sort of thing for such questions is good, but take something you know well, like a song lyric or line from a poem and then change it subtly. For example: Forty score and eleventy years ago, our foremothers brought forth a new abomination. Since you're the one making this stuff up, it's easy to remember, both for passwords and for those "secret" questions. Those are pretty much endless in possibility too: In the town where babby formed, there lived a gal who mailed some trees. Ask not what who has done it in your country. Ask which Lulu can do it with you. And on and on. The only real requirement is that you know whatever it is you're adapting well. Whether that be song lyrics, movie lines, poesy, etc. I prefer song lyrics myself, since they're usually easier to remember, and when presented with the need to recall it as a password/"secret" question, the modifications made come right back. I imagine that wouldn't work for everyone, but it works well for me, and would also work for others. Good luck!

TheSpiceIsLife 5y ago
Finally make those eggcorns useful! In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease".[1] An eggcorn can be described as an intra-lingual phono-semantic matching, a matching in which the intended word and substitute are from the same language. Together with other types of same-sounding phrases, eggcorns are sometimes also referred to "oronyms". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggcorn

smegger001 5y ago

in my experience this inevitably be on form feild where pasting isn't allowed and you cant see what you are typing and will be case sensitive but not inform you of that. and you will get locked out on attempt 3.