Solve : Use odd names for better secujrity.?

Some companies are now asking you to answer a list of questions to help identify you in case you lose your password. But that can weaken, not improve your security. Do you need to let your bank to now the name of your high school sweetheart? The name of your favorite pet? The name of your favorite TEACHER?
If they will not let your op out of the insane questionnaire, give them names NOBODY could ever guess. Like:
Code: [Select]unique Welsh baby names
Emlyn (boy)
Anwen (girl)
Guinevere (girl)
Gareth (boy)
Rhys (boy)
Rhian (girl)
Gwendolyn (girl)
Glynn (boy)
Merlyn (boy)
Bronwyn (girl)
... if you are not Welsh! Or, if you are not Greek:
Code: [Select]unique Greek baby names
Alec (boy)
Angel (girl)
Kira (girl)
Dorian (boy)
Titus (boy)
Zoey (girl)
Iris (girl)
Xander (boy)
Phoenix (boy)
Georgia (girl)
Or just make your own. And write it down somewhere. Like on the bottom of your keyboard. The possibility of somebody breaking into you house and fining the list is very small compared to a 'brute force' attack for a hostile web site.

Also, search the web for 'unique baby names' and find lots more. But never ever give out revealing information about your private life.
All the online security reset info, I always use an answer that is no wheres near any relation to the question such as Mothers Maiden Name = TheyKilledKenny or something totally RANDOM... but yes its a good idea to write it down somewheres.

On that note I created an alias online game account and lost my security reset info, and only knew the e-mail address that was registered to this online game. I am able to click to receive a password reset e-mail, but without the info of this alias, I forever lost access to this online game. The worst thing with this is that I could have sworn that i wrote the info down as well as created a screenshot saved with the alias info, and yet I havent located the screenshot or the paper that it was written on. So although the game is free to play and I have control over the e-mail account to send/receive e-mail that isn't good enough to prove ownership of the account. good way, thanks for sharing The problem with screen shots is you forget where you put them. And you forget the name.

Myself, I copy and paste password related details into a text file. The text file can be later FOUND in a search. You can add some random comments to the text file to make it hard for a spy to realize there is a password in the file. If you can recall any of the random comments you made, you can search for all files with a word. Then you just have to look through maybe a dozen small text files that have the word.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on November 28, 2014, 12:39:20 AM

Myself, I copy and paste password related details into a text file. The text file can be later found in a search. You can add some random comments to the text file to make it hard for a spy to realize there is a password in the file. If you can recall any of the random comments you made, you can search for all files with a word. Then you just have to look through maybe a dozen small text files that have the word.