Salliemae.com has an interesting security feature. The website forces you to choose five security questions from a preset list. Apart from the typical, there is also the question: "What is your greatest fear?"
I can just imagine the day when Salliemae.com is hacked and not only are millions of social security numbers stolen but also a list of borrowers' greatest fears.
They have a few other choices which I imagine being used as blackmail later on. "The first name of your favorite relative" and "The first name of your best friend from childhood" being good targets.
Does giving this kind of information really enhance security in the long-run?
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Next they'll be asking hare-brained questions like: what are your goals?
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