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I agree that security questions are 100% a joke, in that they're completely useless and potentially represent an attack vector.

Unfortunately some services have the annoying habit of randomly providing multiple choice for these (ex. TradeKing). So my qgwpagprgqrgwasr2q really sticks out as an odd answer for my first car, making it even more guessable than the real answer.

There really needs to be a way to completely opt out of these systems for competent consumers. I'd never need a password reset, so they shouldn't allow it.



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