Timeline for Does removing my security questions on Yahoo make me more secure?
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| Jan 24, 2018 at 22:22 | history | edited | Anders | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Oct 3, 2016 at 12:47 | comment | added | Ben | @UTF-8, until your account becomes locked for some reason, and you need the security question to unlock it. I'd just store the security question in your password manager alongside the password. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 13:39 | comment | added | UTF-8 |
And don't use a real last name, even if it's not your mother's real maiden name. I usually use something from /dev/urandom so my mother's maiden name happens to be something like dc��ܠ��ԛ�����Ye����/_�;]�<\���+d(��*S�o���(U�����w�k�_�<�lK�)bn�)0N��tB�>����` a lot. If that isn't accepted, I pass it through xxd so then it's something like 1e8a 9e3b 8e1b 9d91 76eb 05af 3af7 8598. No need to store that shit anywhere, of course. Just store your password in a password manager so you won't lose it and don't ever need the answers to those questions.
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| Oct 1, 2016 at 12:38 | comment | added | Julian Knight | Whenever you are forced to use standard questions such as your mothers maiden name, always use something made up. Treat it like a password, use a different answer for every site. | |
| Oct 1, 2016 at 3:24 | answer | added | Jeffrey Goldberg | timeline score: 6 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 23:16 | answer | added | Ijustpressbuttons | timeline score: 3 | |
| Sep 30, 2016 at 22:35 | answer | added | code_bash | timeline score: 0 | |
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| Sep 30, 2016 at 21:55 | history | asked | Stalwart | CC BY-SA 3.0 |