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Post by cktc on Mar 20, 2014 14:51:54 GMT -5
I hate them! Are these easy for most people? I always have 2+ possible answers to 4/5 questions. - Major in college? I had two.
- Oldest niece/nephew? Before or after I married? Which twin is older? Before or after I divorced?
- First car? That I bought, drove, or bought and drove?
- Street you grew up on? I moved 10+ times!
- Childhood best friend/mascot/school? Again, moved a lot.
- First pet? Mine or family pet, and which name because they always had multiple names?
- Even city of birth trips me up because or a lifetime of metro/suburb simplification.
Then when you miss one they don't tell you which I always get unreasonably excited when a parent's middle name or mother's maiden makes an appearance.
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Post by CarolinaKat on Mar 20, 2014 15:02:18 GMT -5
I hate them! Are these easy for most people? I always have 2+ possible answers to 4/5 questions. - Major in college? I had two.
- Oldest niece/nephew? Before or after I married? Which twin is older? Before or after I divorced?
- First car? That I bought, drove, or bought and drove?
- Street you grew up on? I moved 10+ times!
- Childhood best friend/mascot/school? Again, moved a lot.
- First pet? Mine or family pet, and which name because they always had multiple names?
- Even city of birth trips me up because or a lifetime of metro/suburb simplification.
Then when you miss one they don't tell you which I always get unreasonably excited when a parent's middle name or mother's maiden makes an appearance. Dh always answers those with nonsense words. He then has to remember which one is which nonsense word. So your first pet is always 'boogeyman' even if you've never had a pet named boogeyman. or you always grew up on Neptune, ALWAYS
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Post by NomoreDramaQ1015 on Mar 20, 2014 15:05:49 GMT -5
I always forget which dog I named as my "first" dog or "favorite" dog and have to guess. I have four to guess from. If DH is the one who created the answer I have 6 dogs I can pick from.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 15:07:45 GMT -5
Childhood friend is my favorite. I didn't exactly have a ton of friends, but more than one that's for sure.
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Post by cktc on Mar 20, 2014 15:18:42 GMT -5
Dh always answers those with nonsense words. He then has to remember which one is which nonsense word. So your first pet is always 'boogeyman' even if you've never had a pet named boogeyman. or you always grew up on Neptune, ALWAYS That's actually a really good idea, it makes it almost impossible for others to guess. Of course then I'd also have to remember when I started making stuff up.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 20, 2014 15:27:38 GMT -5
Pick the major you liked most or that comes first alphabetically. The childhood friend you remember most fondly. The simplified city you grew up in. Favorite street name of the 10+ (is one particularly weird or anything?) it's only as hard as you make it.
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Post by midjd on Mar 20, 2014 15:28:41 GMT -5
I hate them too.
I forget which site it was (maybe DD's 529?) but I had to write my answers down and put them in a locked spreadsheet because there were NONE I could easily identify. No 'mother's maiden name,' 'paternal grandfather's first name," etc. It was all "favorite this" and "childhood" that. I don't have a favorite color or teacher and I don't remember my first friend. Even "first car" - did I use Ford? Ford Taurus? Taurus?
At least give me ONE question that has an objective answer!
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on Mar 20, 2014 15:34:17 GMT -5
The one I like is my hometown, or my elementary school. LOL....I was an AF brat, so never really had a hometown. I also went to 9 elementary schools....which one? Hell, unless I dig out my old school records, I don't remember the name of any of 'em!
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Post by Tiny on Mar 20, 2014 15:41:03 GMT -5
I hate those questions too. I'll 'fess up to using a theme (based on a sprawling work of fiction) to answer the questions. I'm bad and keep a 'paper' list of all my userids, passwords, and the answers to the stupid security questions. I've got a password 'theme' for sites I assume I won't use often and a set of generic easy to remember security question answers for that...
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Post by souldoubt on Mar 20, 2014 15:41:39 GMT -5
Pick the major you liked most or that comes first alphabetically. The childhood friend you remember most fondly. The simplified city you grew up in. Favorite street name of the 10+ (is one particularly weird or anything?) it's only as hard as you make it. ^This. It isn't rocket science and if you confuse yourself it's only because you're over thinking it. When it comes to security questions always use the same major, for the car question always use the first one your drove or bought (your choice I just go with the first car I had), for street name just use your favorite or the one you remember most and so on. In every instance where I've had to pick a security question there's a group to pick from and it's easy enough to use the like 5 or so across all sites.
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Post by bean29 on Mar 20, 2014 15:46:06 GMT -5
I had the first dog security question the other day. First Dog as a kid, or First Dog after we got married? I chose first dog after we got married and it worked.
I hate the Favorite Musical Group - I am not a huge music fan so I will have no idea what I said at the time. I am an avid reader, but I swear I have alzehimers, so I don't remember book titles very well.
Oldes Nephew? Full name or nickname always trips me up.
At least both my siblings live in the same city so city my closest sibling lives it only has one answer.
I like to choose Mother's Middle name, b/c my Mom uses her middle name as her first name, I figure if somone is going to get tripped up that will do it.
I recently got the Mother's Maiden name but wait, my Mother or DH's mother? I gave both, and they told me they were looking for MIL.
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Post by alabamagal on Mar 20, 2014 15:49:48 GMT -5
I hate security questions also.
One time I had one "What is your father's middle name". OK that is an easy one. I put it in and it said the answer had to be 4 letters or more, but his middle name only has 3!
Best man at my wedding was my brother. Do I answer his nickname (that I called him growing up, and still call him by) or the name that everyone else calls him (also a nickname but not as childish)
I like the idea of having a standard answer, but I have so many questions out there already, how can I change.
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Post by Blonde Granny on Mar 20, 2014 15:55:16 GMT -5
I'm in the hate them group too. I usually answer them for me, but how would DH (if I got hit by a truck) know the first elementary school I ever went to. And goodness knows I don't know where his late mother was born, or his fathers oldest brothers name.
And even though we're not supposed to, I write the dumb answers down. I also write down user names and passwords. The latest VA ones require 2 symbols, capital letter and a number and must be 10 characters in length. My favorite one tells me I have to have a capital letter in the middle of the word, plus a number, plus a symbol.
Sheesh, and what is so darned important that I have to put in my password every 2 weeks with Yahoo....believe me, nothing important goes on in that website.
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 20, 2014 15:59:26 GMT -5
I'm in the hate them group too. I usually answer them for me, but how would DH (if I got hit by a truck) know the first elementary school I ever went to. And goodness knows I don't know where his late mother was born, or his fathers oldest brothers name.
And even though we're not supposed to, I write the dumb answers down. I also write down user names and passwords. The latest VA ones require 2 symbols, capital letter and a number and must be 10 characters in length. My favorite one tells me I have to have a capital letter in the middle of the word, plus a number, plus a symbol.
Sheesh, and what is so darned important that I have to put in my password every 2 weeks with Yahoo....believe me, nothing important goes on in that website. I wonder how many of these have the phrase "Bite me" in there somewhere
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2014 16:01:40 GMT -5
Hate them. I really dislike the mothers maiden name one, because I can't remember how to spell it. I gave up years ago and started putting it in exactly as it sounds to me. That I can remember, but I doubt anyone else would get it. Otherwise I just answer the same way each time (usually the answer that I think of first and I am 100% on the spelling).
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Post by midjd on Mar 20, 2014 16:15:22 GMT -5
I'm in the hate them group too. I usually answer them for me, but how would DH (if I got hit by a truck) know the first elementary school I ever went to. And goodness knows I don't know where his late mother was born, or his fathers oldest brothers name.
And even though we're not supposed to, I write the dumb answers down. I also write down user names and passwords. The latest VA ones require 2 symbols, capital letter and a number and must be 10 characters in length. My favorite one tells me I have to have a capital letter in the middle of the word, plus a number, plus a symbol.
Sheesh, and what is so darned important that I have to put in my password every 2 weeks with Yahoo....believe me, nothing important goes on in that website. I wonder how many of these have the phrase "Bite me" in there somewhere Mine usually incorporates "a55holes".
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Post by Abby Normal on Mar 20, 2014 16:20:52 GMT -5
I use a variation I would know (and DH) but no one else.
For best friend/roommate question- I always use the same person. Just some one I knew once whose name is hard to spell. Nothing anyone can guess.
One of my favorite questions is- favorite drink. I use Pepsi. Not because I like it, but because it was a name of a dog we have. But for the favorite dog question, we use one from a movie. We know the dog who "played" the part in the movie, and we use his characters name.
Mothers maiden name- we use DH's grandmothers maiden name.
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Post by Malarky on Mar 20, 2014 16:25:30 GMT -5
I'm in the hate them group too. I usually answer them for me, but how would DH (if I got hit by a truck) know the first elementary school I ever went to. And goodness knows I don't know where his late mother was born, or his fathers oldest brothers name.
And even though we're not supposed to, I write the dumb answers down. I also write down user names and passwords. The latest VA ones require 2 symbols, capital letter and a number and must be 10 characters in length. My favorite one tells me I have to have a capital letter in the middle of the word, plus a number, plus a symbol.
Sheesh, and what is so darned important that I have to put in my password every 2 weeks with Yahoo....believe me, nothing important goes on in that website. I wonder how many of these have the phrase "Bite me" in there somewhere "Ihateyou" is one of my favorite passwords. For some sites that require symbols: "If*nhateyou"
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Post by Chocolate Lover on Mar 20, 2014 16:28:50 GMT -5
I use a variation I would know (and DH) but no one else. For best friend/roommate question- I always use the same person. Just some one I knew once whose name is hard to spell. Nothing anyone can guess. One of my favorite questions is- favorite drink. I use Pepsi. Not because I like it, but because it was a name of a dog we have. But for the favorite dog question, we use one from a movie. We know the dog who "played" the part in the movie, and we use his characters name. Mothers maiden name- we use DH's grandmothers maiden name. My grandmother has an unusual name so I was happy to see that my bank has grandmother's name as a question. No one would get it because in day to day life she used a nickname.
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Post by cronewitch on Mar 20, 2014 17:32:53 GMT -5
I cancelled ISO's credit card one day. They weren't going to let me but it was before cell phones and he was robbed. They said he had to call them, I explained he was a long distance truck driver and I wouldn't talk to him for a few days. He was dealing with the company and getting a new drivers license so he could deliver his load. Since his wallet was stolen and he was unreachable they cancelled because I knew his SS number and mother's maiden name even if they knew I wasn't his wife.
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Post by NoNamePerson on Mar 20, 2014 17:41:50 GMT -5
I guess I am too logical for my own good but when I have to answer those security questions and they give you a preview to check, I print out that page. But the mother's maiden name always make me laugh. I want to say "well I always thought it was XYZ but then according to some papers I found when she passed away makes me think it was ZYX
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Post by teen persuasion on Mar 21, 2014 8:44:00 GMT -5
I won't choose security questions that have answers that are a matter of public record (where I was born, mother's maiden name, oldest sibling, etc.) - someone could look those up and know the answers. I will deliberately choose questions where only I know the answers (favorite color), and then use a unique answer (cerulean instead of blue). I try to keep a small set of these answers to limit how many I need to remember, but companies keep changing their question options.
In theory, I could just use one completely gibberish answer for everything, so long as I'm consistent. The problem is the accounts that DH sets up or has to also access. His answers are completely different than mine, and he typically forgets ids, passwords, and question/answers. We also have a book of all these for reference.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2014 8:56:24 GMT -5
I just had to have everything reset for one of our remote access sites this morning because either my answer to my first pet's name or where I was when I heard about 9/11 (I knew my Mom's maiden name) were wrong or the questions were case-sensitive and I typed them incorrectly.
And, of course, they wouldn't tell me which answers were wrong, I just got to start all over again. BOTHER!
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Post by Bob Ross on Mar 21, 2014 9:46:29 GMT -5
Many so-called "security" questions have answers that can be obtained by someone who puts in the effort, often by searching the blather people spew out to the universe on social networking sites.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 21, 2014 9:51:28 GMT -5
So I should change "B@bRossIsKING"?
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Post by 973beachbum on Mar 21, 2014 10:05:04 GMT -5
I actually remember all the answers to the security questions. My problem is I can't remember how I typed them. Most are case sensitive and I sometimes use caps and sometimes all lower case. I can never remember if I put the town and state if it is an address or birth place type thing. For first car I know what it was but can't remember if I just put model or make and model. I actually do write out all those things along with passwords for every site that I have these login things. The only problem with that is we have at least 20 sites like this. Some I won't have to do the whole security question thing for years at time. I really don't remember where I put the paper with those questions and answers are after a couple of years!
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Mar 21, 2014 10:28:18 GMT -5
I hate them too. I also see the necessity.
I like the "What was your maternal grandfather's middle name" kind of question because I study my family history. I hate the what street did you live on in first grade? Have no idea. I also create passwords for DH so have to figure out what kinds of questions he will know the answers to. That's even harder.
I created a spreadsheet with all my passwords. I keep it on a thumb drive and plug it in when I need them. (No other files on the thumb drive and I dymo labeled it "Passwords"... so it doesn't get used for anything else.
I did print it out and put it into my "If I Get Hit By A Truck" file for DH.....
Ugh!
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