Your Pet?s Name vs. Where You Met Your Spouse

Your father?s middle name. That might not be the hardest question for a hacker to guess, but according to researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University it has the advantage of being: 1) easy to remember for months or years; 2) relatively hard to find on the Internet; and 3) difficult for automated guessing programs to suss out. In 2009, the computer scientists tested these qualities in the password-recovery questions used by four leading webmail services (AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo!). ?What is your father?s middle name?? performed well in the study, but wouldn't be so useful for celebrities like Palin and Romney, whose parents? full names are widely available online. (Romney?s father?s middle name was Wilcken, and Palin?s father?s middle name is Richard.) The other top questions were:? ?What was your first phone number?,? ?Who was your favorite teacher,? and ?Who is your favorite singer??

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