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Or just password recovery with trivially discoverable personal details. To a determined attacker, your mother's maiden name, the street you grew up on, and the

Or just password recovery with trivially discoverable personal details. To a determined attacker, your mother's maiden name, the street you grew up on, and the name of your first pet are not hard to figure out. Information like that isn't even secret, the whole practice of using password recovery questions needs to go away.

duskwuff 12y ago
> trivially discoverable personal details Which are even more trivially discoverable for celebrities, since their lives are frequently so well-documented!