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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by ggg9990 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:51PM (#16806807)
The problem they were trying to solve is someone typing in “Woodbridge Lane” as the answer and then later typing “Wood Bridge” or “Woodbridge Ln” or “Woodbridge Ln.” when prompted.

This was the wrong solution.

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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by maaark on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:37AM (#16810455)
The real problem is that "security questions" are bad security.
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by Double_a_92 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:05AM (#16808458)
Because calculating a Levenshtein distance is to complicated...
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by suprfnk on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:49AM (#16809208)
Still rather unsafe, right? "Cambridge" would be closer to "Woodbridge" than "Woodbridge Lane".
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Re:Don't give away historic details about yourself by ggg9990 on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @08:57PM (#16817171)
But randomly guessing Cambridge is not that likely. A bit of a pointless exercise though since security questions are dumb.
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