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Poll: Can you answer five or more of these security questions?

2 points by brownbat ↗ HN
United has rolled out security questions for its accounts, and I am struggling to pick five "favorite X." Maybe I'm weird though. So I'm curious, how many of the following would you be comfortable answering as a security question?

1. What was your least favorite subject in school?

2. What is your favorite warm-weather activity?

3. What was the make of your first car?

4. What is your favorite cold-weather activity?

5. What is your favorite sport?

6. What was your favorite subject in school?

7. When you were young, what did you want to be when you grew up?

8. What is your favorite type of vacation?

9. What is your favorite pizza topping?

10. What is your favorite musical instrument?

11. What color was the home you grew up in?

12. What is your favorite type of music?

13. What is your favorite type of movie?

14. During what month did you first meet your spouse or significant other?

15. What was your least favorite fruit or vegetable as a child?

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el_isma
My security answers have nothing to do with the questions. Best way to make them safe :D
mindcrime
In terms of "real answers", I would only be confident in answering 3 and 12. The others either don't have any answer, or the answer might vary depending from one day to the next. For example if you ask me my favorite sport, I might answer "football" if asked during, well, football season, when it's on my mind. At some other time, I might answer mountain biking, jiu-jitsu, MMA, wrestling, BMX, or something else.

Yeah, I hate these kinds of questions.