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You need to lie about everything
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I use fingerprint technology.
It is so secure, I can't get in, 95% of the time!
Don;t worry the it will work for the feds when they knock you unconscious and put your finger in the scanner.
Childhood friend: Z67!1pQ6fk9
I started this too lmao.
Huh?
Instead of answering security questions honestly, you can treat them as just like another password field.
Funny thing is when a bank employee asks you for the answer on the phone. I was like 5 characters in dictating the random 32 characters when she just stopped me and let me do what I called to do.
That doesn't sound like a good system security-wise TBH. I'd prefer if the employee had to enter the answer successfully on their end for the system to grant them the necessary access, otherwise it feels like a big opportunity both for internal snooping and for social engineering.
Ah, thnks for explaining!
That's why I never tell anyone that my first pet was named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Found a welsh lemmy user.
Finnish?
It’s a village in Wales.
How do you pronounce the third "o"?
How do you pronounce the second "þ"?
Welsh cat! Bapahdahbabapadahdah.
My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
i am wearing a wire.
I mean, I just feed security questions as a randomly generated string- password managers will even save that string so you don’t have to remember it.
If you store it in your password manager alongside your password, what's even the point in having these questions?
... that's an excellent question.
Frankly, even if you don't... what's the point? if you can crack the password, you can probably crack the secret question. or questions.
if you can social engineer a password, same with secret questions.
They're basically just a second passwords. possibly one of many passwords with a prompt.
I'm not even sure how I would store the answers to these questions in a database. Would you hash them like passwords or just store them in plain text (maybe encrypt them, but if someone has access to your servers they can probably access the encryption key too)?
many passwords allow you to store pass keys (like with crypto wallets) as hashes attached to any login credentials. I would suggest storing them that way. at worst, I used to create secondary credentials.
Yeah, it's a little silly if you end up on the phone having to say it to a service rep, but it's better than what's otherwise basically security theater.
I once spent about five minutes explaining my email over the phone — which email has just a handful of letters, but in a weird sequence. Can't imagine having to dictate a random password.
Reminds me of the time when our office got corporate debit cards for everyone, and one dude had his security phrase be eight letters ‘Q’ (or more specifically, a sorta connective letter that can only be at the end of syllables in our language).
I enjoy singing "oh ricky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey ricky [clap clap] hey ricky [clap clap]" at the service rep and i told them that if i don't sing it or clap that i have failed the security challenge.
it's the answer to what was the color of my first car.
The name of my high school crush was "SnorkleBrewersExploringAsphaltBrowniePie" why do you ask?
"Little Snorkly Pie, we called them."
I said my name is Apostrophe Semi-colon DROP USERS.
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