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The best suggestion I've seen for handling security questions is to use the same stupid response for all of them. Mum's maiden name? 'waffles'. City of birth? '
by rantallion 4y ago
The best suggestion I've seen for handling security questions is to use the same stupid response for all of them. Mum's maiden name? 'waffles'. City of birth? 'waffles'. Brand of your first car? 'waffles'. No-one's going to glean that from the internet, and it's going to be difficult for you to forget once you've formed the habit.
- LilBytes 4y agoMy secret questions have nonsensical answers but are all unique per app/website which are recorded. Makes social engineering nearly impossible.
- shyn3 4y agoJust don't put random characters as the answer.
- Tagbert 4y agoTrue. That makes it very hard when you have to recite it back to a customer service person. Best just to use arbitrary, real words and then store the questions and answers in your password manager.
- ChadNauseam 4y agoOnce I was on the phone with Blizzard support, and they asked me to verify the answer to one of my security questions. I said “oh, it’s probably just a bunch of random letters” and she said “uh, yeah, it is actually” and let me into my account. So be aware of that as an attack vector too
- shyn3 4y agoThis is what I was hinting at but not as coherently
- LilBytes 4y agoYep, they're all similar to correct horse battery staple or "toilets excite pregnant cabbages".
- FlyingAvatar 4y agoThis is poor advice. A lot of the time these can be used to reset your password, so you've compromised the security of your (hopefully much more intelligently) chosen password. In addition, if a breach ever leaks or a phishing attempt ever intercepts your security question answers, you expose all your accounts to takeover.