Don't give away historic details about yourself

Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by yuriyb on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @01:57PM (#16803495)

I've never provided literal, logical answers to security questions, as even without sharing the answers elsewhere, the logical ones would be entirely too easy to guess.

"Make of first car?" There are only so many vehicle brands reasonably accessible in a geographical area - not hard to brute force.

"City of birth?" Common knowledge among all my friends.

It's too easy.

An appropriate answer to "Make of first car?" would be something like "red &5 Blueberry."

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by saalweachter on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @05:01PM (#16805385)

So it's a common trope in science fiction that super-intelligences will resurrect historical people using DNA and mumble-mumble to get their memories.

We finally have a plausible answer to how computers a thousand years from now will be able to reconstruct the details of your life: security questions.

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