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The breach exposed the personal data of half a billion million users, including their names, email addresses, phone…
lol wat
That’s nearly eleventy thousand. Terrible breach.
That breach went to 11.
This is why I’ve generated random passphrases for every security question I’ve answered in the last decade, stored alongside 2FA data (not in my password manager).
The best part is you usually can’t use special chars in security question fields, so I just max out the field length. This makes them functionally the same, and as secure, as any recovery code.
I also do this.
It wasn’t fun however when one of the companies I transact with required me to answer one of the questions over the phone as a means of authentication.
I could tell the customer service guy was just as tired when I finally finished responding. :)
I’ve told them “I just entered a bunch of random nonsense” and he’s like “aha, yeah, I can see that” and proceeded to help me. Makes me want to just create some fake-but-real-looking information for those questions instead…
Pass phrases. “Where did you go to school?” “The gratuitous fax machine yellows mayonnaise tablets”. Still long, easy to copy & paste, easy to say on the phone.
This is why I use passphrases instead of password. Not worth worrying about phonetic ease though, as I’ve never had to use them since using a password manager. The key is to always set/update passwords by copying FROM the password manager… Same reason you should restore a cryptocurrency wallet from the seed immediately after creation — to ensure your backup works and the info has been stored accurately.
Why are we calling account backdoors “security questions”?
They question your security
Back in the day we would get people’s emails from kingdom of loathing, add them on MSN messenger and get the answers to their emails secret questions.
We’d then reset the password get in their account take all their shit and set it all back.
just use them as secondary or tertiary passwords and use a password manager to generate a 512 character long password
Depends on the questions and how chatty you are about those topics in your life.
Yes, especially when the question pool is tiny. ‘What street did you grow up in?’ Which move? Which country? ‘What was your childhood dog’s name?’ Shorter list of options, but if you don’t let me make a few guesses, I’m left playing mind games with past me. That fucker.
