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by jacquesm 3900 days ago
> I sure don't want my passwords being reset because somebody knows my mom's maiden name...

Not only that, any site that used that question and all those that got hacked know your mom's maiden name if that question was ever answered seriously. That's the main reason such 'secret questions' suck because there apparently is a fairly small set of commonly used questions like that (first school, first pet, favorite pet, moms maiden name, street where you were born and so on).

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Yup. I end up just storing the questions in my password vault along with the generated answers I used for them. Not exactly helpful.
Yet another reason to not be facebook friends with relatives.