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> You know the type: "What's your favourite animal?", and other easily-guessed and easily obtained information hackers can use. > I always put in some gibberish by mashing the keyboard and make sure to record them somewhere safe just in case I need a password reset. I memorise my password and that should be fine, right? But then you have to trust that "somewhere safe" is actually as safe as you think it is. One alter…
>One alternative is to use them like mnemonic code phrases. So perhaps your answer to "What's your favourite animal?" is not really an animal, but maybe Cthulhu, so maybe the answer would be "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" I'd go further than that and use stuff like that for actual passwords, but with a twist. Using that sort of thing for such questions is good, but take something you know well,…
In linguistics, an eggcorn is an idiosyncratic substitution of a word or phrase for a word or words that sound similar or identical in the speaker's dialect. The new phrase introduces a meaning that is different from the original but plausible in the same context, such as "old-timers' disease" for "Alzheimer's disease".[1] An eggcorn can be described as an intra-lingual phono-semantic matching, a matching in which the intended word and substitute are from the same language. Together with other types of same-sounding phrases, eggcorns are sometimes also referred to "oronyms".