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Treat Security Questions as Passwords

The takeaway

Your mother's maiden name is googleable — lie creatively.

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Security question answers like your first pet or hometown are often discoverable online. Treating them as extra passwords — with fictional, manager-stored answers — closes a common account-recovery back door.

“Answer security questions with lies only your vault remembers.”

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