You can also lie to security questions with joke answers only you understand.
this post was submitted on 09 Feb 2026
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I started this too lmao.
Huh?
Instead of answering security questions honestly, you can treat them as just like another password field.
Funny thing is when a bank employee asks you for the answer on the phone. I was like 5 characters in dictating the random 32 characters when she just stopped me and let me do what I called to do.
That doesn't sound like a good system security-wise TBH. I'd prefer if the employee had to enter the answer successfully on their end for the system to grant them the necessary access, otherwise it feels like a big opportunity both for internal snooping and for social engineering.
Yeah, I guess they are seeing the answer on their side because they need to be able to judge that when you say your first car model name differently than when you typed it in, it's the same thing.
Because you are not trying to recall the answer, you are answering the question, and can word the answer differently than before.
Which I don't like.
Ah, thnks for explaining!
I use fingerprint technology.
It is so secure, I can't get in, 95% of the time!
Don;t worry the it will work for the feds when they knock you unconscious and put your finger in the scanner.
I mean, I just feed security questions as a randomly generated string- password managers will even save that string so you don’t have to remember it.
Yeah, it's a little silly if you end up on the phone having to say it to a service rep, but it's better than what's otherwise basically security theater.
I once spent about five minutes explaining my email over the phone — which email has just a handful of letters, but in a weird sequence. Can't imagine having to dictate a random password.
Reminds me of the time when our office got corporate debit cards for everyone, and one dude had his security phrase be eight letters ‘Q’ (or more specifically, a sorta connective letter that can only be at the end of syllables in our language).
The name of my high school crush was "SnorkleBrewersExploringAsphaltBrowniePie" why do you ask?
"Little Snorkly Pie, we called them."
I said my name is Apostrophe Semi-colon DROP USERS.
I enjoy singing "oh ricky you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind hey ricky [clap clap] hey ricky [clap clap]" at the service rep and i told them that if i don't sing it or clap that i have failed the security challenge
If you store it in your password manager alongside your password, what's even the point in having these questions?
In some places it is mandatory
... that's an excellent question.
Frankly, even if you don't... what's the point? if you can crack the password, you can probably crack the secret question. or questions.
if you can social engineer a password, same with secret questions.
They're basically just a second passwords. possibly one of many passwords with a prompt.
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That's why I never tell anyone that my first pet was named Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.
Found a welsh lemmy user.
Nah, just a smartass.
Finnish?
It’s a village in Wales.
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My voice is my passport. Verify Me.
i am wearing a wire.
you need to never use the "security questions" ever...
The security questions are often forced.
The trick is to make up answers. Have some go-tos or a pattern that only you know and no one else could guess with information from your life.
Why yes, I did grow up on AmazonFakeStreet. Oh, my spouse? MicrosoftSpouseName of course.
so the funniest thing, we were sitting around at a family reunion. someone asked, so do we all use the same answers for our security questions? and uh, turns out we all do. same made up answers (everyone had the same favorite cat. whose favorite person was me awww yisss), but the same answers. and that moment we decided to update our security procedures.
You get security questions asking you who your "favorite person" is?
Hmm... SELECT * FROM Users WHERE SecurityResponse2 = "*Epstein"
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