Don't give away historic details about yourself

Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by rabboRubble on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:44PM (#16805169)

I use 1Password as a password vault. Some years ago, I decided to start lying for secret question answer challenges. I use 1Password to generate a string of garbage (without numbers or symbols, 25 characters long) and keep that answer in a custom field in the 1Password vault. I've tagged those entries with a security tag to find all accounts with secret Q&A information.

I am paranoid about back ups because if god forbid I lost that vault, there are accounts that would be permanently lost to me.

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by itakedrugs on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:03PM (#16805954)

One problem with this is social engineering... someone could call the company to recover their password and say that they entered garbage for the security question...

I started to enter passphrases instead

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by rabboRubble on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @09:03PM (#16807185)

Good point. I’ll have to think it over a bit. Since I have all the info should be very easy to fix up the data. Just time consuming

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by osteele on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @10:00PM (#16807458)

I used to do that but sometimes you have to read them over the phone. Now I use the “Words” recipe to generate a 2-3 word answer for each field. For example, if I had to fill out my answers right now, my high school would be “Popcorn Gizzard”, my childhood friend would be “Procure Drowse”, and my first car would be “Sextant Overflow”.

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