How Secret Are Your Account’s Secret Questions?

Setup Secret Questions

I was opening a new soundclould.com account the other day, filling out the necessary information until I came to the most frequntly asked question besides your first and last name. The Secret Question. Everyone has answered it. “What’s your grade school teacher’s name?” “What’s your favorite pet’s name?” How about “What’s you mother’s maiden name?”

These question are supposed to protect your accounts from hackers breaking into your vitals and doing unmentionables to you. But I found out through a New Scientist Study that it is not as safe as we would like to believe. So Stuart Schechter and Rob Reeder of Microsoft has a new idea that could be safer. Check it out and let me know what you think.

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