{"id":4683,"date":"2012-06-10T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=4683"},"modified":"2012-06-10T05:26:42","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T09:26:42","slug":"whats-the-best-security-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/whats-the-best-security-question\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s The Best Security Question?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060912_0350_WhatsTheBes1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"331\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When you sign up for a new account you&#8217;re normally asked for a username, password, and a security question in case you lose access to your account. Yet the answers to these questions are often easily guessed as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2008\/09\/palin-e-mail-ha\/\">Sarah Palin found<\/a>. What&#8217;s a good question to set?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The answer to the question must be memorable \u2013 you likely won&#8217;t need it until many years after you set it.<\/li>\n<li>It also shouldn&#8217;t be easy to find through social media.<\/li>\n<li>Based on research done by Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University the best question then is &#8220;What is your father&#8217;s middle name?&#8221; as it meets both criteria.<\/li>\n<li>This wouldn&#8217;t work for famous celebrities, but it does work for the average person.<\/li>\n<li>Other questions that work include: &#8220;What was your first phone number?&#8221; and &#8220;Who was your favourite teacher?&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Preference questions such as colour are too easy to guess \u2013 there are really only a few options.<\/li>\n<li>The answers to questions such as &#8220;Favourite historical person?&#8221; are often forgotten by the users themselves.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To read the questions (and answers) that Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin set for their accounts, some examples of questions that seem difficult, but really aren&#8217;t, why nonsense questions don&#8217;t work, what not to do when you set your own security question, and other things to watch out for, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/06\/mitt_romney_email_hack_which_password_recovery_questions_are_most_secure_.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/news_and_politics\/explainer\/2012\/06\/mitt_romney_email_hack_which_password_recovery_questions_are_most_secure_.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you sign up for a new account you&#8217;re normally asked for a username, password, and a security question in case you lose access to your account. Yet the answers to these questions are often easily guessed as Sarah Palin found. What&#8217;s a good question to set? The answer to the question must be memorable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/060912_0350_WhatsTheBes1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4719,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions\/4719"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}