Does no one but see the problem with those “for your additional security questions?”

Ding! Ding! Red flags, bells, alarms and sirens are going off!

What is your mothers maiden name? What is the name of your firstborn? How much did you make in your first year of work?

Very soon there will be a VAST array of personal data collected for each and everyone of us. And all this is so we’ll be protected? Tell me how putting every personal detail of my life in database after database will protect me? We these companies arrogant enough to imply that they’ll never have their security breached? We all know there’s a chance. Where there’s a lock, there’s a locksmith.

I can’t believe the security heads can’t get together and find another way that ensures I am me that will no further risk even greater damage to my personal information should their security be breached.

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