Amused by a post on My Biggest Complaint:

“Every hacker knows your mother’s maiden name by now.

Adding stupid questions like “What is your favorite movie?” isn’t going to do much to tighten the security of a lost password request either. In fact, I don’t really even know what my favorite movie is so I have to move on to the next ridiculous question which is usually something like a childhood pet’s name.

Truth be told, I have so many false pet names flying around on lost password request forms I don’t whether my fake pet’s name is “fluffy”, “scruffy” or “spot”. So I usually get my own password reminder question wrong.

This is the actual list of stupid questions I had to choose from recently:

* Who is a famous person you’d most like to meet (living/dead)?
* What country would you most like to visit?
* What is the farthest from home you traveled?
* What was the last name of your childhood best friend?
* Where did you meet your spouse for the first time? (Enter full name of city only.)

A famous person I’d like to meet… hmmm…. well… hmmm… better be good, I mean this is important right? Ummm… no, not him… well okay, maybe… no. To hell with it, I can’t limit myself to just one, let alone one I would remember. On to question number 2.

What country would I most like to visit? France. No wait, Germany. No… scratch that, Spain. No… damnit! Scratch this question too, I can’t decide right now and chances are, I won’t be able to decide when you actually ask me the question in 6 months when I need it.

Farthest I’ve traveled from home… that’s easy. 1,785 km. Let’s see how good that works in 6 months.

Maybe I better go with the childhood friend name. What was that kid’s name? Wait a minute… that kid really wasn’t my best friend anyway. Come to think of it, that kid was pretty a much a jerk and grew up to be a drunk anyway. Oh yeah… my best friend’s last name was “Jones”. No hacker would ever guess that.

Better try the spouse one… what city did we meet in… city name only? Okay, “New York”. Finally, an answer no hacker could possibly guess. My password will be reset safely from here on out.”

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