“Welcome to your first day on the job, Sergio! We’ll just finish setting up your accounts. First, enter THE STREET YOU GREW UP ON!”
“What!? NOOOO… oh god… ok… ok I can do this.”
“Great, now think about YOUR FIRST BEST FRIEND!!!”
“Oh no please-- watch out for-- watch out-- why why why…”
“Wonderful! Now think about YOUR FIRST TOY!”
(breaks down sobbing uncontrollablly) “I can’t… I can’t do this…” (runs out of the building, wakes up the next day in an alley with an empty bottle of whiskey.)
Seriously, who are these people with idyllic childhoods who came up with these questions? Fuck em.
“Welcome to your first day on the job, Sergio! We’ll just finish setting up your accounts. First, enter THE STREET YOU GREW UP ON!”
“What!? NOOOO… oh god… ok… ok I can do this.”
“Great, now think about YOUR FIRST BEST FRIEND!!!”
“Oh no please-- watch out for-- watch out-- why why why…”
“Wonderful! Now think about YOUR FIRST TOY!”
(breaks down sobbing uncontrollablly) “I can’t… I can’t do this…” (runs out of the building, wakes up the next day in an alley with an empty bottle of whiskey.)
Seriously, who are these people with idyllic childhoods who came up with these questions? Fuck em.
It’s more secure to come up with a set of nonsense answers to those questions and save them in the notes in a password manager, or just memorize them.
You don’t want someone who knows those details about you to be able to just hijack your accounts.