Lee Evans : Why Do I Always Forget My Passwords?!

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I can't say I've ever encountered the one about being asked for individual letters from my password, but I wouldn't put it past some sites. I know there have been some that stored the plaintext form of the password and that would have definitely enabled such a weird authentication scheme. 

Demotivational security questions

found on Izismile

Another reason to lie on security questions is so that forgetting your password never forces you to examine how wrong your life turned out. That's not a helpful frame of mind when you're trying to recover your account.

Security questions - the darker the better

found on Memebase

On the one hand, security questions are generally not very good because the information they're asking for is actually public info that anyone could easily guess or look up in order to gain access to your account through the forgotten password mechanism. On the other hand, some of these topics are so uncomfortable the argument could be made that the answers actually aren't well known.

Maybe the best security questions would be the ones that probe our insecurities, because those are the things we're least likely to share.