SECURITY: The old style secondary security authorization questions are dumb

I’ve often heard people struggle with the old style secondary security authorization questions.  You know: “What’s your favoite color”, or pets name, or school street.

I, long ago, decided that it was a “stupid control”.  So, in my passwrd manager, I’d record the questions and give absurd answers.  So, “what’s your favorite color”, became red158, pet’s name, red247, and street, red532.

Solved that problem.  

I still object to 2FA that rely on an SMS message and prefer Google Authenticator.  

But what do I know.

And, I don’t care for PASSKEYS either.  Not good for sites where I may have multiple ids or different Users.

Argh!

I also don’t like using my email for a User id.

Argh!

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