Yeah, more off-topic stuff from me.
I was employed by a large federal agency. During one of its fits of security theater, I was required to provide an answer to a secret question. I typed “not your business” for the answer. My supervisor got a call from IT; the tech was complaining that I was not taking security seriously. On the contrary, I answered, I’m taking it so seriously that I’m not providing an easily-obtained bit of information about me. And, my answer is not likely to be guessed by the bad guys. And, speaking of security, how do you know what my answer was? Surely you’re not storing the secret answers in plain text, are you? The IT tried to deflect my questions, but my supervisor was having none of it, and took the IT guy to task for discussing my secret answer on an unsecured phone line. (That was nice. We didn’t have any secure phone lines, but it shut the IT guy up.)
It drives me nuts when a form designer assumes everyone in the world has the same starting point as he or she has. If the form designer or programmer wants something, he or she should say so. It especially annoyed me when I had a password rejected for having a special character. If there are restrictions, say so. Bah.
Thanks for letting me rant.