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Using secret questions to give people access to their passwords is a terrible idea, according to a new paper from Google.
A white paper [PDF] called "Secrets, Lies, and Account Recovery: Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google" dug into the data of millions of users interactions with a range of password-recovering questions and...
City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea
Using secret questions to give people access to their passwords is a terrible idea, according to a new paper from Google.
A white paper [PDF] called "Secrets, Lies, and Account Recovery: Lessons from the Use of Personal Knowledge Questions at Google" dug into the data of millions of users interactions with a range of password-recovering questions and...
City of birth? Why password questions are a terrible idea