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Your Instagram is a phisher's research dossier

The takeaway

Pet's name, birthday, mom's maiden name, first car, high school. That's every security question, ever.

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Security questions are 90s tech. The answers are sitting on your public profile.

Lie on security questions. 'Your first pet?' Sure: 'Tu7p$Lakeshore!9.' It's a password now. Store it in your manager.

Or skip security questions entirely if the site lets you. Use 2FA instead.

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