Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret

Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by 659087 on Friday December 29, 2017 @10:39PM (#16033723)

I go out of my way to come up with particularly ridiculous answers to these questions in cases where I know someone might eventually want me to answer them over the phone.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by nickjj on Saturday December 30, 2017 @08:49AM (#16035213)

The next time I need to answer a secret question that might be used over the phone I'm going to write the answer in as:

"No thanks, that information is private and I'd rather not share it over the phone. I know, you're probably going to say that you can't help me without this information and you're doing this to help prevent identity theft but I stand by my choice to not partake in answering your question. Can I speak with a manager?"

That should make for a fun conversation.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by TheSpiceIsLife on Saturday December 30, 2017 @03:05AM (#16034348)

In the same vein, I always draw a stick-figure horse when I have to sign for deliveries at work.

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Re:Your Mother’s Maiden Name Is Not a Secret by chrismorgan on Saturday December 30, 2017 @08:11AM (#16035100)

I’ve toyed with the idea of replacing my signature with 8 random hex characters. Possibly selected spontaneously, different each time. Or writing “handwritten signatures are outmoded; use digital signatures that actually mean something” or similar.

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