On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 11:12:41AM +0200, Jacob Carlborg via Digitalmars-d wrote: > On 13/07/14 17:00, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote: > > >Yeah I always get annoyed by these security screening questions, > >especially when they don't let you write your own!!! They mostly > >involve trivia like relatives' names, dates and places, etc., that > >are far too easy to guess by a social engineering attacker. *My* > >favorite systems allow wording my own questions, which are along the > >lines of: > > > > Q: Blue cheese? > > A: I got diarrhea. > > > >I.e., the question is completely nonsensical to anyone except me, and > >the answer has no obvious connection to the question without context > >that only I have. > > They have at least some connection. Perhaps you get diarrhea from > eating blue cheese ;) [...]
Of course there is a connection. But not one that's obvious from the question, and not something you can guess without knowing exactly what the implied context is. (And btw, the example I gave above is completely made up.) T -- Meat: euphemism for dead animal. -- Flora