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Password requirements are getting ridiculous
shmokes:
I just signed up for a website so I can apply for an internship for next summer and the requirements for creating a password were:
- At least 8 characters, up to 20
- A combination of upper case and lower case letters
- Must include both numbers and letters
- Must include at least one of the following symbols: ! @ # $ % ^ & * (note that many common symbols, like the hyphen and question mark, are not on the list)
This is getting obnoxious. Requirements keep getting more and more complex. I have already moved to a password that I thought would work pretty much everywhere, as it contains letters, two numbers, and a symbol. Unfortunately, my symbol isn't on the list, and I don't have any upper case letters in my password. So, now I have to come up with something all over again, for this one site which I will almost never visit. This means that I need to write down my password somewhere because there's no way I'm ever going to remember it, WHICH IS NOT ---smurfing--- SECURE!
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 09:52:00 am --- I have already moved to a password that I thought would work pretty much everywhere, as it contains letters, two numbers, and a symbol. Unfortunately, my symbol isn't on the list, and I don't have any upper case letters in my password. So, now I have to come up with something all over again, for this one site which I will almost never visit. This means that I need to write down my password somewhere because there's no way I'm ever going to remember it, WHICH IS NOT ---smurfing--- SECURE!
--- End quote ---
Writing down your password in a physical location is a whole lot more secure than using the same password everywhere... really, who is going to come into your house looking for paper scraps? With your method if someone cracks your password in one place they have it everywhere. That makes security guys have aneurysms.
Ginsu Victim:
In Firefox, what I do is make a bookmark, then go to properties and put my username:password for that site in the comments section.
ChadTower:
I just write them down on paper in my desk. Can't hack that. My desk is such a mess no one would ever find it. Hell I can't find it sometimes.
Blanka:
I like the passwordmanager for that.
And now and then I print a screenshot of the list.
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