Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by nly on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:26PM (#16033445)

This works great until you call your bank for some reason and they ask you for your moms maiden name. Urgh, it sucks.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by roywiggins on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:35PM (#16033484)

I use diceware-type passphrases (a bunch of entirely random real words) for security questions for this reason. Bit weird to say "I was born in 'correct horse battery stapler'" but it doesn't seem to bother banking phone reps much.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by QAPereo on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:54PM (#16033554)

I love just how pervasive the influence of xkcd is! I do the same as you by the way, and no one has ever called me on using something that is obviously not a name.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by r00fus on Friday December 29, 2017 @09:38PM (#16033493)

Then use a passphrase with no spaces.

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