vaspider:

So, since a lot of stuff has been going around that’s meant to steal people’s security questions, here’s a quick and easy way that the security guy at one of my old jobs gave me to make your security questions more secure.

Pick one of the following:

1. Spell your security answers backwards
2. Add a number on to the end of your security answers that you won’t forget but is hard for other people to guess 
3. Or, and this is the best of the three: add a code phrase on to the end of your questions that you won’t forget 

What do I mean by a code phrase? Well, let’s say that the security question is ‘Street you grew up’ and the answer is ‘Lancaster.’ (Note that none of the things I’m saying are my security answers, for obvious reasons). If that were my answer, though, I might take a private joke that I won’t forget and add it on to the end. 

Let’s say that one of the random things that @dadhoc and I say to each other is ‘there’s a horse in the hospital.’ So when I type in my answer? I’d type Lancastertahith. Or maybe if it was ‘I’m covered in bees’ I’d type Lancastericib. 

It’s a new habit to form, but once you form it, your answers are far less vulnerable to socioengineering. 🙂