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Secret questions are not 2-factor authentication (2FA). They are just a really shitty password, something that you know. --JakubNarebski (talk) 14:33, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Secret questions are more like 0-factor authentication, since they typically ask for public data. Shirluban 141.101.88.106 14:39, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Use prime numbers in your password: this would only limit the number of possible passwords for a hacker to check.
Use special characters like & and % : this advice is thoroughly handled in https://xkcd.com/936/ Changing characters into a special one does adds just very little to the search space. However, a video from Computerphile suggests inserting a random character somewhere in the password which might actually be rather helpful
162.158.111.211 14:53, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
Maybe you really should use a secure font Font related bug 162.158.79.161 15:13, 5 April 2017 (UTC)
