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They really are horrible. When I'm given a small list of questions to choose from, they generally fall into three buckets: - Completely non-applicable (I'm not
by suresk 14y ago
They really are horrible. When I'm given a small list of questions to choose from, they generally fall into three buckets:
- Completely non-applicable (I'm not married and don't have any kids or pets)
- Transitory and inane (I don't really have a favorite meal or movie, and if I did, who is to say it will be the same forever?)
- Rely on information that is relatively easily to figure out (birthplace, high school mascot, mother's maiden name, etc)
Security questions alone should never be sufficient to reset a password or gain access to an account, and I'm not really sure they add a whole lot in other contexts either.
- mmariani 14y agoI find them horrible as well. That's why when I'm given the opportunity to write my own questions I always do so. Then in this security theater I hopefully am a little bit safer than most people that just pick a question from a list. On a side note, one of these days I've got really scared when a reputable credit card company asked me for one of these security questions. WTF?!