Personal questions, such as mothers maiden name, used for authentication. Commonly seen during account recovery. Also known as "security questions".
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What is the purpose of forcing people to provide "security questions" and answers to them?
Am reinstalling Windows 10.
Dang. It forces me to provide no less than THREE security questions. I have to choose them among questions like, What was the name of your first pet and What city were you born in.
OK Windows might do this to convince me…
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Do security questions pose threat to the user?
When we set up security questions, assuming we answer fairly, we give out to the site our secrets, facts from our past. I wonder if the following is considered:
we are encouraged to use a different password for every account, but our mothers have…
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How many security questions should be asked?
We currently use 5 security questions but Operations team is asking us if we could lower down to 3.
With that,What is the best practice for this one? How many security questions should be asked?
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