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I logged in to the TIAA-CREF website today (my retirement funds are with them, because my former employer somehow qualified as an academic institution), and they wanted me to update my security profile.
That turned out to include adding security questions. The list of options this time includes, along with things that seem too easy to look up, and things that don't apply (I didn't go to the prom), several to which my reaction was "I don't know…" I could ask my mother for my maternal grandmother's middle name; I'm not sure there's any way to find out what city my paternal grandmother was born in. What country, maybe (she was born in Russia, before the revolution, and I think my father said it was Ukrainian, but we had that conversation when it would have been the Ukrainian SSR].
Still, I found some I could answer without making up something random and writing it down in the list of passwords (the software would let me put "How-would-I-know" for my grandmother's middle name, and might have accepted "pi=3.141592," but then I would need to remember having said that), and maybe I'll ask my mother for her mother's middle name the next time we talk.
That turned out to include adding security questions. The list of options this time includes, along with things that seem too easy to look up, and things that don't apply (I didn't go to the prom), several to which my reaction was "I don't know…" I could ask my mother for my maternal grandmother's middle name; I'm not sure there's any way to find out what city my paternal grandmother was born in. What country, maybe (she was born in Russia, before the revolution, and I think my father said it was Ukrainian, but we had that conversation when it would have been the Ukrainian SSR].
Still, I found some I could answer without making up something random and writing it down in the list of passwords (the software would let me put "How-would-I-know" for my grandmother's middle name, and might have accepted "pi=3.141592," but then I would need to remember having said that), and maybe I'll ask my mother for her mother's middle name the next time we talk.
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