Brokerage login now requiring I answer these questions. Not a single one of these has a single answer I’d actually remember. They all have problems regarding what would actually count or multiple possible answers to choose from, or these are not things people would remember or they just don’t apply to most people.

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    22 hours ago

    First partner is fine. First foreign country isnt terrible. The rest range from pretty bad to “what human thought this was a good security question”

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      First partner is fine.

      If you’re really concerned about security, you should know people can often crack this one pretty easily if you have public social media accounts. It depends on how much you have at stake. I don’t think it would matter for your Netflix password, but if it’s an investment account with tens of thousands of dollars or more, you should be aware that “hacking” is really just a very organized process of digging into data leaks and social media accounts to scrub as much information about a target as possible.

      To this ned, your childhood friend is (237#0Je<-)Banana39999_willywarmer, and the street you grew up on is Jupiter’s radiation belt.

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      18 hours ago

      Yeah but first boyfriend/girlfriend drives me crazy because then I’m going back through my various early relationships trying to figure out who counts as a “girlfriend”. I’d say Sherry was the first but she always said we were never really together. Well now you’re a security question answer so you can’t deny it anymore Sherry.