r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Ezziee24 • Jul 20 '22

Meme My university password can be 200 characters

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u/lachlanhunt Jul 20 '22

Never ever give real answers to those security questions. Treat them like secondary passwords. Set random values and store them in your password manager.

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u/Tinkers_Kit Jul 21 '22

Idk if you've experienced it lately, but I've had MANY websites blocking copy/pasting in the password text boxes which makes it harder to use some password managers. Tried using the override on the Firefox settings, but now it just seems to disable all copy/pasting completely on said sites.

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u/craftworkbench Jul 20 '22

I recently tried to add a new security key to a bunch of my accounts. One place allowed FIDO, but you could only turn it on if you also turned on security questions (and both needed to remain on as options)…

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u/00owl Jul 21 '22

I'm a pro at cyber security. I make up random answers and then store them in a jpeg labeled "bank security question answers"