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City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea

Craigness

Re: Spell it phonetically

"Love the irony..."

I've never forgotten a password, because I have a password manager. I don't see the irony there. The point is that an easy to guess "security" question makes the password weak, nomatter how long it is, so the answer to the question has to be something which can't be guessed, and your father's name should be different on every site just like your password is. That requires a password manager...and that's the irony! Instead of having 1 high-entropy string to remember, you have 2.

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