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I use the same dummy answer for every website regardless of the question.
I'm so internet smart!
+ Show Spoiler +Because this is TL and people don't understand jokes here, please realize this was a joke, Its not internet smart to do what I do.
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That's the reality of secret questions in general, on top of which most experts in the field recommend that you answer with random code words that have no relation whatsoever to the question.
For example, when was the day of the week when you lost your first tooth? Protoss
something like that, just tie it to personal likes that make no general sense, it's a tough thing to remember but if you develop some kind of personal pattern, or a list of like 10 items that it will be from that tends to keep your other accounts secure in situations where *i'm looking at you blizzard* security questions get hacked.
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I have an easy solution to this, and it works as long as I'm using a qwerty keyboards. My passwords/secret question answers are geometric patterns on the keyboard with a defined ordering, which is varied between passwords but is very easy to remember. So I end up with length, immunity to tables, and complexity in the sense that numbers, special characters, and capital and lowercase letters are involved.
Great way to do things. An example might be something like !1Qazxcdews@#
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Personally I'm having a lot of trouble with blizzard lately, locking my acct 4-5 times within the past week, sending me as many as 15 emails in 15 mins regarding my acct being locked. Every time I have to reset my password. I login on my acct from different locations which is probably the reason or i miss type my password, cause i use an old one. I've tried talking to support, and i just get a bunch of bs in return, i just wish a person would actually talk back instead of pasting the "usual crap".
Personally, I agree with the answering of questions with something random, unrelated.
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Yes, this is so true. Letting us just write our own question would help out so very, very much -_-
I was actually just thinking about this a few days ago 
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type the last word of the question, backwards!
+ Show Spoiler +note I don't recommend this approach either unless you scramble it with a master password or something
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"No, I ask the questions."
Usually gets me through, funny how it works.
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If you have too many accounts to manage, maybe a good idea would be to pick a fixed word and blend it with something from the web site or security question. Like:
Word: Cat = CAT
Website: www.teamliquid.net -> 2 first letters + 2 last letters = TEID
Security question: Who is your father? -> last letter of each word = OSRR
Take one letter from each in order going backwards: RDTRIASECOT
Not perfect, but some of those security questions are so easy to look up for other people that I wonder how much security is there at all.
I'm more worried about managing all my passwords. For things I don't really care if get hacked or stolen I will use the same password, but then you have other things which would be more harmful if someone managed to break into them. It is not uncommon that I will not be sure which password corresponds to which thing. So I may try some passwords which are for other services and get denied. My worry is if these failed logins get logged somewhere. And then if someone breaks into that website they can find failed logins and use that to hack into the other service.
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Security questions are a huge risk. Especially if the answer is truthful. "Where was Ralph Nader born?" Seriously? You're basing the security of your account on the assumption that the hacker doesn't know that AND can't use google?
I just use the same password for everything unimportant and a couple of secure ones for the important stuff (banking/personal email/personal computer).
Ideally I'd like to have an RSA key for at least banking and email and some kind of biometric identification for my PC.
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I laughed so hard at あなたは女の子はワイルドゴーンは好きですか？
For stuff thats sensitive you need good passwords that don't make sense to anyone. For everything else, use password!
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