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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by alanbernstein on Friday September 06, 2019 @06:12PM (#20900354)
What bugs me about security questions is when they give you questions that have subjective or time-varying answers. "What's your favorite X" is a terrible security question for me, I am not likely to remember an answer I chose 2-3 years ago
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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by snegu on Friday September 06, 2019 @08:31PM (#20901036)
A government site I have to use for work asks "If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"
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Re:Sites with dumb password rules by Cogito on Sunday September 08, 2019 @08:09PM (#20914189)
A Ms. Tree!
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