Friday, September 19, 2008

I'm officially changing my answers to password security questions

Not sure why I never gave this much thought before, but after the Gov. Sarah Palin email hack, it makes perfect sense for everyone to create their own alter-ego, answering their favorite security questions (e.g. which high school did you attend?) with a bogus answer that you can remember.

And as ComputerWorld writes, it's not just Yahoo! that's vulnerable to these types of attacks.

1 comment:

Chris said...

You can also "obscure" the answers to your security question...

a la http://lifehacker.com/5051905/how-to-protect-your-email-from-hackers

But you need to come up then with a method of obscuring! So maybe that makes things more complicated... :)