Originally Posted By: Matt Finley
I’m usually ok unless I think they are fishing for the answer to a security question.


But you are a smart guy and not really a target for that to happen. When they force you to use stock questions is when people need to be careful. Some allow you to make up your questions. I do things like "What make. model, year and color was my uncle's car when I was 12?" Now, if somebody cares enough to brute force hack that, they could try every combination of make, model, year and color, and have to guess when I was 12. Since the account is fake, as is the birthday and every other bit of information on it, good luck guessing the year I was 12.

They are getting better with the stock questions though. Childhood nickname, high school mascot, first concert... very random stuff. Unless someone sets a keylogger on your system that's all hard to guess. And if they guess it, what are they going to get if you don't put your life out there?