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Personal questions, such as mothers maiden name, used for authentication. Commonly seen during account recovery. Also known as "security questions".

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Do security questions subvert passwords?

If a site requires passwords with a certain scheme (length + required character sets) and has a security question, why would someone try cracking the password instead of the security question? I assum …
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