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by alain_gilbert 1769 days ago
I read somewhere that a hacker called support, and when they asked the security questions, he said: "I remember just putting any gibberish in there."

And voila, support person opens the door for you.

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Yeah, confirming that I did this to myself and realized in horror that anyone could have reset my password. So the only other option I see is to use real words that look plausible for the fields or to type in a message for support like “read this exactly letter for lettr”