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[stormdog]

Because my randomly-generated 15-character password with letters, numbers, and symbols is apparently not secure enough, my bank's login decided today to ask me stupid questions like "What year was your spouse born," and "Who is your favorite fictional character?"

I have no idea what I would have written for the second one. But the site replaced it with "What was the make of your first car" after my first failure. I know the answer to that, but it still didn't work. I think I must have used something else as the answer and I don't remember what. Now I have to call them 'cause I'm locked out. Annoyance.

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[cahwyguy]

Hint: Assuming you use a password manager (because you really should), store the answers to those questions in your password manager so you can make sure you always get them right. (I use Lastpass, but there are others out there).

[stormdog]

That's an excellent idea! It occurred to me to do that as I was creating the new password.

I'm pretty sure I had chosen clever things for the answers that were not really related to the question, but which I thought I'd remember. Apparently, I was wrong on that second part.