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Old Feb 15, 2016, 11:45 am
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Michael D
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
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Originally Posted by DENflyer3
I was shocked when at the questions with predetermined answers. These security questions seem to be some of the easiest there are to break if anyone has any remote knowledge of the persons account they are hacking. I am actually more offended now that they made me feel less secure.
You can make any security question an order of magnitude more secure by making up an answer instead of answering it truthfully. If your favorite color is blue don't say blue say green.

Of course you need to remember that you answered the random color green not your favorite color blue.

In general you really don't want to provide any more personal information when answering security questions.
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