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Originally Posted by ApK
Well, they are supposed to be long term memory things that won't change over time, and are unlikely to be obvious to any random person you encounter. So it might be more correct to say they were written by people who are aware that many people had been students at one time
Also, it's worth noting that security questions and MFA rarely serve the same function. MFA is to make routine authentication more secure than single factors like just a pin or a password and so should be no more inconvenient than a password if possible. Security questions are typically a backup recovery mechanism only used if you lose access via the primary mechanism, like you forget your password, and so can be a bit more cumbersome and inconvenient.
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I tend to think that they are also written by people who still live near/at/close to their original homes. I mean...when I speak to or exchange emails with people who still live near where I was raised, all their memories of our childhoods, school years, etc. are baked-in. They remained in the area; continued to run into people that they've known for 50 years; tell the same stories and all that. Some of the rest of us, who left there that long ago, can't remember the time that Mrs. so-and-so got shut into the locker or whatever. Or "that game in 1970," or the like. it's like all memories--those that are oft revisited stay fresher or at least, more..."imprinted" than those that aren't called up. [shrug]
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