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Making answers up is safer for security questions anyway - every time some celebrity's email account gets hacked, it's because someone looked up the name of their pet or their highschool on Wikipedia.
There is one system we use at work which requires a password change every month, and your password can't be anything you've used in the past 24 password changes. I access this system approximately three or four times a year, and so my password is on a post-it taped to my desk. (In my defense, this system has the built-in security feature of being next to impossible to use. It is almost universally referred to by the staff as "that stupid piece of shit.")
Making answers up is safer for security questions anyway
But don't you run a higher risk of forgetting the falsehoods?
But don't you run a higher risk of forgetting the falsehoods?
I think the idea is to have a fake answer completely unrelated to the question so you can remember it but it would be difficult to guess. Basically a second password.
Where did you go to high school? Lemon tree
What's the name of your favorite book? Lemon tree
etc etc
And the lemon flowers sweet.
But the fruit of the poor lemon is impossible to eat.
I essentially have a whole secret identity that I use consistently in cases that I don't need to give correct info:
I have a 2nd birthdate (that is a different month, day, and year from my actual birthdate). Different birth location that is close to my actual birth location, but not the real one. But I need to flush out this 2nd identity a bit more and give this person a different first boyfriend, first kiss and a new pet.
Yeah, I use a totally made up something for most of my security answers. It started out with mother's maiden name. The first time it came up, they let me phrase the question. So I made it, "Are you going to tell us your mother's maiden name?" And the answer is something along the lines of "nofreakingway" which I use for lots of things.
I also used to give "Fictitious" and "Name" as my first and last names.
It's actually harder to remember my SO's secret answers. "Dude, what was your kindergarten teacher's first pet?"
And then there's my mom's, which are a conglomeration of random letters and numbers with various capitalizations stuck in there for good measure. She uses the first letters of a phrase you'll remember method, which I taught her but don't use. She's awesome.
Our password for the network at the theatre is random capitalizations of "When is lunch? It's at noon."
