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Password requirements are getting ridiculous
shmokes:
At least once a year, on my desktop -- depends if I'm tinkering with OSes. Twice a year on my laptop cos we run this buggy exam-taking software and if it ---smurfs--- up the student has to write in blue books, but doesn't get any extra time. I type about 90 WPM, so this poses a pretty distinct disadvantage. The software ---fouled up beyond all recognition--- up (memory leak) during one of my exams last year, so now before exam time each semester, I clean off the computer and load nothing but that one program. So at least three format/reinstalls per year. PITA.
Another problem with a Password Manager of any kind is portability. I do a lot of computing from campus, on campus computers. I suppose I could put firefox on a USB drive and carry it around. Maybe eventually I'll start doing that.
missioncontrol:
Portable firefox is awesome for such situations... Just be sure to master password protect your password bank
ChadTower:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:29:01 am ---Another problem with a Password Manager of any kind is portability. I do a lot of computing from campus, on campus computers. I suppose I could put firefox on a USB drive and carry it around. Maybe eventually I'll start doing that.
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A thumb drive with the keys to your kingdom on it, carried around with you, seems like a really bad idea. It may as well be an old parchment with dotted lines leading to a big red X.
shmokes:
BTW, it occurs to me that we're missing the point of the OP. Password requirements keep getting progressively more complex. It started out with passwords having almost no requirements. Then 5 characters was commonly required. Then 6. We skipped 7 and went straight to 8 for some reason. Then numbers had to be added. Then symbols. Then numbers and symbols. Now numbers, symbols AND lowercase and uppercase letters. Soon we will need to have uppercase letters surrounded by at least one lowercase letter on each side of it. Then we will need that, plus at least one space. Then the password will need to be two words, each conforming to those requirements. Then three.
It just gets to a point where I'm like, "---fudgesicle---, can we stop doing this? ---smurfing--- make biometrics standard on all computers or something, but this is getting absurd!"
shmokes:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 18, 2008, 10:31:34 am ---
A thumb drive with the keys to your kingdom on it, carried around with you, seems like a really bad idea. It may as well be an old parchment with dotted lines leading to a big red X.
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It sounds like you are finally beginning to appreciate my problem, actually.
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