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by senkora 1882 days ago
The key is to generate incorrect answers that are reasonable matches to the question.

Like if they ask for a city, then give a city. If they ask for a name, give a name. Etc.

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Exactly. This is the right answer to the problem. Random digits are a bad idea for the reason noted above.
Yeah, and then you have 50 places with all different question where you give incorrect answers lol. Good luck trying to recall it. IMO these questions are the worst.
You put the answers into your password manager for that account. If your password manager doesn't have at least some kind of encrypted "notes" field for each account, get a better one that does.
I do, it still sucks.
But not your favorite city. Very clever!