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A heuristic where you transform a truthful answer might be better.

i.e. your first car was a Bronco, security answer = hash('bronco'+secret).slice(6)



My issue is that most of the time, the available questions are just frustratingly dumb. I don't have a favorite song, favorite movie, or favorite food. I like lots of things and those things change over time. And seriously, favorite teacher? That's very common. How many people really have a favorite teacher.


The problem with that is that it goes back to being gobbledygook for which the operator will accept "I just smashed the keyboard for it".




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