This seemed like a great idea when I first encountered it, but trying to use it was a major fail for me. Encrypted files with a single long passphrase I can actually remember seems less prone to failure.
What exactly is the product name?
What is the website name?
Does it include www?
What about other subdomains?
These are the same kinds of questions that make security questions so frustrating as designed.
"What was your elementary school?" Hm. Is preschool elementary, or separate? Is the private school I went to for K and 1st an "elementary school" (there was no division between those in that school)? Maybe I should use the first school I attended between K-6 that had such a division? Or maybe just when I started public school, since that one was the first one called elementary...?
"What was your mother's maiden name?" I hardly remember my mother, and when I started being asked her maiden name, I had to guess how to spell it. Is this security question one I answered when I was guessing wrong, before I knew how to spell it for real? Even if it's not, did I decide this time to use the old spelling for consistency, or to add a slight hitch to someone who looked that up and is trying to access my account?
Essentially every answer to these kinds of questions that isn't about a number (and some of those!) comes with so many caveats that it seems unlikely I'll remember which path down this tree I took when I added it. The world is so fuzzy. This is like those "puzzles" where the wording of the puzzle actually admits many possible answers depending on how you interpret words and phrases, but everyone seems to settle on a meaning that's obvious to them, but the most "obvious" answer seems different from day to day for me.
What exactly is the product name? What is the website name? Does it include www? What about other subdomains?
These are the same kinds of questions that make security questions so frustrating as designed.
"What was your elementary school?" Hm. Is preschool elementary, or separate? Is the private school I went to for K and 1st an "elementary school" (there was no division between those in that school)? Maybe I should use the first school I attended between K-6 that had such a division? Or maybe just when I started public school, since that one was the first one called elementary...?
"What was your mother's maiden name?" I hardly remember my mother, and when I started being asked her maiden name, I had to guess how to spell it. Is this security question one I answered when I was guessing wrong, before I knew how to spell it for real? Even if it's not, did I decide this time to use the old spelling for consistency, or to add a slight hitch to someone who looked that up and is trying to access my account?
Essentially every answer to these kinds of questions that isn't about a number (and some of those!) comes with so many caveats that it seems unlikely I'll remember which path down this tree I took when I added it. The world is so fuzzy. This is like those "puzzles" where the wording of the puzzle actually admits many possible answers depending on how you interpret words and phrases, but everyone seems to settle on a meaning that's obvious to them, but the most "obvious" answer seems different from day to day for me.