Don’t Answer that Hashtag Question

Your security is more valuable than a little social media entertainment

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When my wife [NAME REDACTED FOR SECURITY REASONS] and I log into our bank account [NAME NOT SHARED FOR SECURITY REASONS] we’re often confronted with a series of “Security Questions,” basically privacy hurdles we have to jump to access our accounts from a different phone or computer.

It’s funny how often neither one of us can remember the name of our first pet (Oh, wait, I never owned one…or did I?), the name of our grade schools, or our early jobs.

Perhaps if we first shared some of these details, at least our #First7Jobs on Twitter, that might help jog our memories, and just think of all the fun we’ll have sharing this information first with 300 million strangers.

That hashtag is real, by the way, trending on Twitter as I write this. I’ll admit, I thought for a moment of going through my early career highlights for my thousands of Twitter followers. I could share the time I worked at [NAME REDACTED FOR SECURITY REASONS] or how I had to handle a dead mouse at [NAME REDACTED FOR SECURITY REASONS]. Before I started composing that tweet, I read some of the comments. More than a few were deriding the over-sharers, reminding them that this information was tantamount to security and privacy…