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Of course, your answer should NEVER match the question. But that's beside the point. "Whose was your favorite high school teacher?" -Pecan pie.
by dhimes 14y ago
Of course, your answer should NEVER match the question. But that's beside the point.
"Whose was your favorite high school teacher?"
-Pecan pie.
- untog 14y agoThe point still stands, though. There is way, way too much potential variation to hash that stuff.
- Steko 14y agoI think the bigger point is that a ton of signups use this question. Whether you say 'Mr. Smith' or 'Pecan Pie' isn't going to save you if you use it for all of them.
- dhimes 14y agoActually, you often get to pick your question. If they don't hash the answer, however, you're screwed. It seems doable to me: drop on non alphanumeric (or something), split on whitespace, trim, lowercase, put back together. It beats the hell out of putting in the "right," googleable, answer. Sarah Palin can attest to that.
- smsm42 14y agoThe only problem is that in 5 years you'd have no idea what you answered there. And that's exactly when you'd need it.
- wlievens 14y agoYeah, unless you do it consistently everywhere, which again defeats the purpose. Maybe you could do something like consistently answer the previous question from the dropdown?
- roc 14y agoOr use a tool like 1password to generate and store the 'answers'.
- smsm42 14y agoYou need those answers exactly when you don't have the password, which means your 1password failed for some reason (otherwise you'd have the password from it). For me it usually happens with sites that generate their own passwords which I for some reason failed to enter into 1password some time ago (probably because I didn't use the site for a long time).