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The security questions business is hard, too. Many sites use things which are public information (mother's maiden name) but even question's like "Where were yo
by furyg3 14y ago
The security questions business is hard, too.
Many sites use things which are public information (mother's maiden name) but even question's like "Where were you on this important date?" or "what was your first car?" start to look pretty silly in the age of Facebook. Worse, a dropbox-loving facebooker who's checking his gmail account from his iPhone probably has enough information in many of those places to compromise the other accounts.
- jwbaker 14y agoYou should never give legit answers to these security questions. I just paste in the output of pwgen -s 32 1. This may make your account harder to "recover" but it also makes it harder to steal.
- raverbashing 14y agoFor a compromise, you can add the correct answer but with a quirk. (that is easier, unless you forget the quirk) like, put the first name in "Mother's maiden name", or the middle name, or swap their position And you are right to treat it as a passsword
- furyg3 14y agoYes, this is exactly what I do. I have interesting results sometimes; Bank: I'll just need you to confirm your mother's maiden...um...um Me: Yes, it's a long string of random characters, want me to read it? Bank: No, that's ok, thanks. :/