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That is a major downside with putting gibberish in for answers to security questions… let’s hackers socially engineer support into letting you get access by say
by cortesoft 4y ago
That is a major downside with putting gibberish in for answers to security questions… let’s hackers socially engineer support into letting you get access by saying something like, “oh man, I just mashed on my keyboard for that I don’t remember!”
You would hope it wouldn’t work, but it probably will.
- jedberg 4y agoThat's why I always put legit but wrong answers in. Can't really guess because they're all different and made up, but also can't say, "Oh I just mashed the keyboard".
- brewmarche 4y agoThat’s a good point. It’s better to use wrong but plausible answers or random sentences (some password managers can generate phrases from a word list)
- mellavora 4y agoor even better, use some random non-words. There was a post here a few months back about a service which generated non-existent but plausible sounding words. So, your "favorite city" could be i.e. HorsecrackBay Griennstone.