Online Security Questions Are Not Very Effective. I Still Love Them.

A celebration of the sudden, strange personal inquiries that guard our entrance into some of the internet’s most impersonal zones.

Online Security Questions Are Not Very Effective. I Still Love Them.

The New York Times – by Sophie Haigney

The website for an airline wanted to know what musical instrument I played: none, though once upon a time I played the piano, badly. It also wanted to know my favorite flavor of ice cream: cookie dough, probably, though it’s something of a tie with peanut butter cup. Finally, the website asked, “Who is your favorite artist?” It offered me a drop-down menu featuring comically disparate options — among them Banksy, Norman Rockwell, Gustav Klimt, Richard Serra and Shepard Fairey.

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