# Why can't I make up my own security questions (and answers, of course)?

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**Created:** [September 12, 2021, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-make-up-my-own-security-questions-and-answers-of-course/950531 "2021-09-12T01:42:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![SciFiSam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/47e85d/32.png) [@SciFiSam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SciFiSam)\
**Post date:** [September 16, 2021, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-cant-i-make-up-my-own-security-questions-and-answers-of-course/950531/81 "2021-09-16T12:03:56Z")

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> [@WildaBeast](#):
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> You don’t need a smartphone to receive text messages. Pretty much any cell phone made in the past 20 years will have that capability. Even if you don’t have a text plan you should be able to receive them, unless you explicitly asked your cell provider to block texts, although they might charge you something like 20 cents per text.

My landline also accepts texts. It reads them out to me.

Well, it did - it’s not plugged in any more because all I got was spam calls.

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