Any other security questions you’d like people to expose? What about the street I grew up on driving that car? /s
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Driver's Ed: 1986 Chevy Cavalier and it was a horrible brown color.
Parent's Cars:
1986 Buick Skyhawk: Very crappy car. The gas pedal didn't so much produce acceleration, but rather an eventual increase of the angular momentum of the tires.
1970 Chevy Impala: Loved this car. Huge and had a 400cid small block with a 400 Turbo Hydromatic with a 12 bolt posi rear end. It's the car that really taught me how to drive. It eventually ran 13's in the quarter mile.
Learned how to drive manual: 1983 (I think) Ford Escort
REALLY learned how to drive a manual: 1949 Willys Overland. A friend's Dad's car. Why did it REALLY teach me how to drive a manual? Easy, it had a non-syncrho'd transmission, much like the big rigs have. This car taught me rev-matching, double clutching, and an appreciation about how cars really work. It also had a column shifter. Once I learned how to handle the transmission, it was a lot of fun to drive. It made me a much better driver.
The car that taught me how to race (there were two):
1985 Toyota MR-2: Was a friend's car that I Autocrossed (Pro Solo) along with him. He actually made it to Nationals with this car several times. Later he won Nationals with a Supra Turbo. This was in the mid-90's.
1985 Corolla GT-S: This was my car. It was the AE86 platform with the same engine as the MR-2. Absolutely ferocious car. It didn't handle as well as the MR-2, but it was soooo much fun. This car taught me "trail braking" and a lot of other performance driving skills. This remains my favorite car I've ever owned, even to this day. I'd love to find one and restore it.
My sister’s first car was an 86 cavalier. It was blue and had a manual transmission. She stalled the engine going over train tracks once and the train crossing lit up as she was trying to restart it. Panic ensued…
a 1968 International dump truck.
zero AC, zero power steering, zero fucks.
once you got going with a load, nothing would stop it, not even the brakes. but, it always started and never quit.
Ahh the Chevrolet Datamine, it was also my first car!
1991 Ford S10 pickup, on the farm, when I was 8 years old. I only crashed it on the farm once -- in first gear, stopped. Took foot off clutch and lurched forward into the wall in front of me. In my defense, I hadn't been instructed on how to turn it off yet ;)
Fiat Punto.
Exam cars in my area were puntos so schools tended to teach the same model.
Red '89 Civic hatchback. It lacked power steering so I had to turn the wheel a hundred times to make it turn. It felt ancient to me and it was manual transmission. My dad wanted me to learn manual even though most cars are automatic in the US. No power steering absolutely sucked, but it turns out knowing how to drive manual can be pretty useful.
Nice way to get the answer to an often used security question!
I always thought these "ask" communities were a great vector to extract PII.
all you'd need to do is link users to leaked identities and probably get access to accounts quickly.
this is why I make up the wrong answers to any of those questions.
what was you first pets name?
Hannibal Lecter
what was your mothers maiden name?
Poopsmith
I swear to God any account system that uses security questions is brain dead.
For one, a third party can get access to that information with relative ease in many cases but furthermore, some of the security questions are subjective. If a security question asks me during account creation what my favorite restaurant is, what my favorite food is. That answer might literally change, I might not be able to remember the head space I was in when I made the account.
Yes yes let's protect your password with three shittier passwords for no good reason.
completely agree.
on the other side though, some.of the questions are things that are easily found. things like, "what street did you grow up on" or "what is your mothers maiden name". like...that shit can be found for free, like right now on the internet at about 200 data brokers.
how about we get an option for hardware keys? or better yet, pgp/rsa keys?
factor those in with password and MFA there should never be a reason why someone (who knows wtf they're doing) would ever get locked out of their accounts.
I'll be completely honest I'm super anxious about maintaining access to my accounts. Everyone wants me to have a passkey and 2FA and yada yada. And all I can think about is what if I lose my phone or it gets stolen or destroyed, what if this cheap ass USB stick which is serving as some kind of physical key stops working?
It seems like right now my security strategy is keep really tight track of a little plastic rectangle.
I know there are backup codes but those are also like, their own mess, I have to print out a sheet for every other site and make sure that I keep the most recent one and toss any that are old and don't let those get lost or anything.
Maybe I'm overthinking it but I am concerned about it.
I just had to recover my PSN account from a decade ago and I did this with my mother's maiden name apparently
luckily I managed to remember the false birth date I had also used
I have never seen this as a security question. I mean it sounds like one but have never seen it in the wild.
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The color of your first car is a fairly common backup question. Answering this in detail is not recommended.
Ford KA Mk1, absolute shitbox and I still miss it despite driving a classic super mini these days.
My first real drive was my brother's Saab. Quirky car to start with
Early 80's Subaru sedan with a manual. On a cross country trip with my dad when we moved from the West Coast to Massachusetts. Good times...except hitting a turtle somewhere in Penn.
'78 Toyota Land cruiser troop carrier, down dirt tracks with my father when I was 14.
Early 80s Chevy Chevette.
It was so basic of a car it was unreal. Manual transmission, no radio, I mean, the damn thing was with a giant riding lawnmower with a hatchback.
Currently learning on a Peugeot e-208 which is electric. Apart from that, it is more or less the same as the manual version.
1982 AMC eagle wagon with woody side panels.
The car actually caught on fire while I was driving, and I was known as the person that smelled like burnt car in high school, because that burning rubber/plastic smell stayed in my books and materials for the entire school year.
Some manual car provided by the driving school. Not a gear/petrol/car head
The format was a bit bigger than a compact or full-size.
Driving lessons was with a Peugeot 308 is think. I also had supervised driving with my parents, I mostly drove my dad's Peugeot Partner (horrible car). When I go my license my parents bought me a second hand Citroën Xantia. This car was awesome 😎.
I have no idea besides that was a stick shift with 4 wheels. Is this something people normally care about?
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A dark green '96 Fiat Furtodidati. It was the Frodediidentità special edition, with the extra cupholders.
The driving school's VW Golf.
Though to be fair, I did start learning in my dad's Saab 95 BioPower, and his Peugeot 406 convertible.
When I got my license in 2022 at 35, I spent some inheritance and bought a nearly new 2021 Seat Leon FR PHEV hatchback.
205bhp in my first car aint bad....
The family car which was a Vauxhall Cavalier.
Learned to drive in was over a long time so uhhhh whatever was around when my parents wanted to teach me.
My first car was the old family minivan though. 9x something dodge caravan.
My mom's early 90's minivan. I think it was a Voyager.
Austin A30 van... Tell you I'm old without... etc etc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin_A30?wprov=sfla1
no sure. I did not get my license until like 21 because my friends were sick of me not being able to drive so I took it on my friends automatic small car. My parents had a stick shift station wagon.
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