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Re:Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what? by aynawn on Thursday April 28, 2022 @11:46PM (#31201171)
Use a password manager to generate 16 character strings as answers to each security questions. I guarantee your IT person will no longer remember them.
Re:Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what? by Froedlich on Friday April 29, 2022 @01:19PM (#31208033)
From my experiences trying to tell non-native or highly accented English speakers gibberish URLs or filenames, that would probably be an exercise in misery.

"Three. Like one-two-three." -> they hear "tree" or "123"

"'D'. Like Able Baker Charlie Delta." -> they hear anything ending in "ee", or "abelbakercharlydelta"

And so on, ad nauseum.

Re:Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what? by NullPrefix on Friday April 29, 2022 @07:25AM (#31203788)
And when you're asked for your security answers just tell them it was some gibberish random characters.
Re:Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what? by terrabitz on Friday April 29, 2022 @08:56AM (#31204481)
This. Security questions are almost always visible to humans in plaintext, and those humans are expected to be the judge of whether the security question was answered correctly.

I used to do random characters, but have switch to a string of random dictionary words. Still not perfect (since "a string of random words" could potentially be accepted as a valid answer), but I feel like having it be human-readable makes it less prone to that kind of fuzzing.

Re:Tell HN: IT guy at my company just did what? by cm2012 on Friday April 29, 2022 @04:33AM (#31202784)
But then these calls will be way more tedious