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USPS uses them. Their customer service rep wasn't amused when I told her my favorite food is heroin.

• nkrisc 2y ago
  And here I am with all answers to my security questions as random strings of letters and numbers stored alongside my password in my password manager. I hope I don’t have to give someone that answer over the phone.
  • oefrha 2y ago
    I probably raised a fair bit of suspicion last week when I told the Wells Fargo rep handling a declined CC transaction that I had to look up my mother’s maiden name in my password manager.
    • bee_rider 2y ago
      At this point anyone handling passwords must have encountered enough of us to know that some family names need to be looked up in a password manager, and it isn’t that suspicious. Isn’t that right, my cousin? I can never remember how to spell grandma 38!;&,90-@3!;8,’s name.
      • SoftTalker 2y ago
        I don't remember where now, but I have run into sites that disallow numbers and non-alpha characters in the "secret" question answers. They were actively trying to thwart people from entering random gibberish there. Of course that's silly, but so is thinking that a person's maiden name is some kind of secret, or that people will be able to reliably remember things like "the title of their favorite book."
      • chgs 2y ago
        My uncle is called Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--
        • whaleofatw2022 2y ago
          Duhangit Bobby
  • pkaeding 2y ago
    Yeah, it is pretty awkward. My forst car, sure: Capital-double-you, dollar sign, eff, nine, you, bee, gee, capital kay...
  • accrual 2y ago
    My only fear of doing this is that someone could call in and say "oh sorry, I just typed in a bunch of random numbers and letters" and the rep will go "haha, don't we all!" and let them reset the password.
    • nkrisc 2y ago
      If that happens then I don’t think my mother’s maiden name was going to protect me either.