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by bhandziuk 637 days ago
Absolutely. Like how many times has my mother's maiden name and the name of my first pet been leaked.
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I hate the ones that don’t have a single objective answer. Like “name of your best friend in 3rd grade” or “city where you first fell in love”.
Or weirdly ethnocentric questions like “what’s your favorite food” with multiple choice answers like “spaghetti, pizza, hamburger”. Good thing everyone who recovers their password is American!

Or “what instrument do you play”, when multiple instruments I play are in the multiple choice list but only one can be correct. And what the fuck is the point of multiple choice security questions when anyone has a 1/10 chance of correctly guessing on any login attempt.

United Airlines is by far the worst major company I have ever seen in all of these and deserves to be shamed.

Those are the best! You're supposed to use a random answer like "cookie monster" or "flatulence"