Many companies, LuxSci included, recommend or require that users have one or more “Security Questions” and corresponding answers associated with their accounts.  These questions are commonly used to:

• Verify a user’s identity if the user has forgotten his/her password, or
• Provide a second factor for logging into the service above and beyond the username and password

Because these questions are used to provide access to the service and identity verification, it is very important that questions and answers be well chosen.

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The situation: you send and receive email messages via many different email addresses (aka "you have multiple email personality syndrome") via a single login.  I.e. email from several work and personal addresses are all forwarded to your main email address, so you get all your email in the same account.  Very convenient, but…

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