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Use a password manager to generate 16 character strings as answers to each security questions. I guarantee your IT person will no longer remember them.
by aynawn 4y ago
Use a password manager to generate 16 character strings as answers to each security questions. I guarantee your IT person will no longer remember them.
- cm2012 4y agoBut then these calls will be way more tedious
- NullPrefix 4y agoAnd when you're asked for your security answers just tell them it was some gibberish random characters.
- terrabitz 4y agoThis. Security questions are almost always visible to humans in plaintext, and those humans are expected to be the judge of whether the security question was answered correctly. I used to do random characters, but have switch to a string of random dictionary words. Still not perfect (since "a string of random words" could potentially be accepted as a valid answer), but I feel like having it be human-readable makes it less prone to that kind of fuzzing.
- Froedlich 4y agoFrom my experiences trying to tell non-native or highly accented English speakers gibberish URLs or filenames, that would probably be an exercise in misery. "Three. Like one-two-three." -> they hear "tree" or "123" "'D'. Like Able Baker Charlie Delta." -> they hear anything ending in "ee", or "abelbakercharlydelta" And so on, ad nauseum.