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Re:But why can't I send people their passwords? by gpvos on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @09:09AM (#7943636)
Using personal questions for security is the worst thing ever.

Whenever I encounter them, I paste the output of "dd if=/dev/random bs=1k count=1 |uuencode x" into the field.

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Re:But why can't I send people their passwords? by iopq on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @10:11AM (#7943944)
If you can use Facebook and Linkedin to hack someone's bank account you know that this is a bad idea. What's that, the make of your first car and the name of your first boss are actually freely posted on the Internet? You don't say.
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