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I like the idea of trolling people with security questions that you never actually use in a password-recovery workflow.

What is your third favorite vacation spot? Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? For how much money would you go to jail for 1 year?

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I was always a fan of these nihilist security questions:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/nihilistic-password-secu...

The New Yorker published a cartoon along that vein last year with "Insecurity Questions":

https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/insecurity-ques...

I've just chuckled for far too long visualizing your horses and your ducks. Now everyone here at this cafe thinks I'm some kind of animal murderer.

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