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· 4 years ago
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Don’t worry. You’re better off not answering these security questions with true facts anyway as those are generally very easy things to find out about a person from public records and social media. One trick is decide on some answers-totally random or some schema that you can remember. For example- you might use “Taco octopus weasel” and it doesn’t matter if the question is “what’s your mom’s maiden name” or “what city did you grow up in?” A human is not going to guess that answer and a machine... well... to be honest- most modern password security makes it harder for humans to guess and authorized users to remember. You’ve got so many passwords and they change so often that you’re more likely to compromise your password security using weak password schemes you can remember anyway. Or store things in some kind of digital key where they are targets for one stop shopping.
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guest_
· 4 years ago
But if you have a pool of security question answers- randomization can slow down or thwart simple cracking and human guessing or data mining for answers- but anything but a rudimentary crack doesn’t care what the text is- it doesn’t matter to a machine what the words are. Adding length and special characters can help with security- but brute force cracking is uncommon because of time and other factors. Probably- if your info gets winked it will be taken off the server side or via the network anyway. So- there’s no perfect protection but you can at least protect against humans better.
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