Quote Originally Posted by Raoabolic View Post
So THAT'S why people are upset at secret questions. Why would you post that sort of info online if you know you are using it for security reasons? It would be like plastering your address and phone number online. lol
Depends who’s upset. It causes people to worry when companies implement jank security like what else are they doing @_@

Secret questions and answers are LESS secure than passwords and always have been. By their very nature you reuse said secrets at many products and services and unlike passwords they get stored encrypted (hopefully, at least) instead of hashed, so when a database gets compromised, the most likely things to be compromised isn’t your passwords, but you “secrets” that can be used to change your password, and sometimes even email accounts.

Short story: secret words make any system LESS secure