{"id":211,"date":"2009-10-02T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-10-02T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2009-10-02T19:06:44","slug":"the-wrong-kind-of-secret-question-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=211","title":{"rendered":"The wrong kind of secret question to ask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most websites will ask you to choose from a set of secret questions to answer when you set up an account. If you ever need your password reset or get locked out, most of the time it&#8217;s a cut-and-dried process where you answer that specific question, type in a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CAPTCHA\" target=\"_self\">CAPTCHA<\/a> scrambled-text phrase to verify you are a real human, and then change the password for the website to whatever you want.<\/p>\n<p>Easy enough, right?<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t ever pick your high school name as the secret answer.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why &#8211; all someone has to do to reset a password of yours with the high school name as the answer is to search <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\">Facebook<\/a>. 99% of the time, everyone&#8217;s high school information is in their public profile.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve tested it. It works.<\/p>\n<p>A good practice is to choose your own personal question if a website gives you that option. That adds just a little more security to your website activities and keeps you just a hair ahead of the bad guys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most websites will ask you to choose from a set of secret questions to answer when you set up an account. If you ever need your password reset or get locked out, most of the time it&#8217;s a cut-and-dried process &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/?p=211\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pfyw-3p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions\/215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royceeddington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}