dear every app that makes you add security questions,

let me write my own damn questions. your questions are too generic and are things anyone could easily learn by googling

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@Taweret This is why I just treat those as secondary passwords. Sadly, lots of places don't allow those to be equivalently secure, but the answers can be logically disjoint from the question. Never answer those things honestly.

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@neal @Taweret Also a good thing to keep them something you could easily recite over the phone. They don’t need to be honest answers to the questions, but many of the companies asking these things still treat them as “phone passwords” if you need to call them for any reason.

I use the classic “Diceware” word list and roll a nonsense “phrase” (then save to a password manager).

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