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by gknoy 3341 days ago
This is a case where you think of an _idealized_ grandma, and her perfectly preserved dog, `Mr. Mycroft Applebottom III`, who has been sitting on her mantlepiece since you were in gradeschool. [0]

The site doesn't have to know you're making it up.

0: Obviously, it'd be better if your idealized grandma spoke with your password generator beforehand, and therefore named her dog something less guessable, like `ff627f056c51b694e2e5d0bdc168c647`.

1 comments

That's a good suggestion actually: just remember that you always ignore the question, and you've saved the actual securely generated answer as 'sitename-sec-question' or whatever.