Suspicious thought of the day

[substitute]

All of these "25 random things about me" and "answer these 10 questions" chain quizzes will work very well as data mining when you're trying to figure out the personal Q&A information used in website security systems.

Comments

[bigsciencybrain.livejournal.com]

That is a very good point...

I always make my security questions obscure quotes from obscure, random movies. Or quote related so you'd really have to be inside my brain to get the reference.

I also lock myself out of things quite frequently because I stare at my security question and think...WTF???

[bobby isosceles (from livejournal.com)]

[dreamyshade.livejournal.com]

i was just curious where you went to elementary school. and what your first puppy's name was. baby things are cute.

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[rpkrajewski.livejournal.com]

My mother's maiden name is… DOH !

[handstil.livejournal.com]

HAHAH
I remember a myspace bulletin getting passed around that was very "the name of your first pet" "your mother's maiden name" and I just went "huh, wonder who will save all of these and what kind of badness will result."

[firepower.livejournal.com]

You are so fucking badass lately, substitute.

[brianenigma.livejournal.com]

In Cory Doctorow's Little Brother, the evil, corrupt gub'ment used them to match the online personas of dissidents to real-life people. In fact, I seem to recall them specifically planting certain questions to help better home in on certain key facts.