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Password requirements are getting ridiculous
punxrus:
Ginkobaloba...good for the memoriez ;D
shmokes:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 18, 2008, 08:58:45 pm ---
Look at your keyboard. Type "shmokes", but instead hit each key one up and to the left for this - it becomes "wdyj9i3w"
--- End quote ---
The thing about this that just makes me laugh my head off is that it doesn't even begin to satisfy my problem. ;D
I needed to choose a password that had letters and numbers, AND upper case, AND one of eight specific characters, none of which are covered by that idea. Again, I have no problem coming up with a password that meets their criteria. My problem is that the criteria from site to site seem to be on a slippery slope and keeping track of it all is becoming a nightmare. I think I'd rather deal with the headache of having my security compromised a couple times every ten years or so then this day-to-day, increasingly complex password management tango we're having to deal with.
Singapura:
I use 9 different systems (excluding safeboot to boot up and my windows password). All systems have 2 passwords and they're all different. To make things "easy", the bank has issued a single sign on system tied to my access pass. I don't get that. First they make you use all those passwords, then they bring it back to one :dunno. Anyway, whenever I need to renew my password (every 3 months or so) I still have to fill in the old one. Off course by then I won't rememember it anymore because I never use it (the single sign on does that for me). :banghead:
Ed_McCarron:
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:19:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 18, 2008, 08:58:45 pm ---
Look at your keyboard. Type "shmokes", but instead hit each key one up and to the left for this - it becomes "wdyj9i3w"
--- End quote ---
The thing about this that just makes me laugh my head off is that it doesn't even begin to satisfy my problem. ;D
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You sound like a woman. "But -I'm- not satisfied..."
It was a generic example for the 99% of us that don't need to use an umlaut in our passwords. :)
patrickl:
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 19, 2008, 08:11:09 am ---
--- Quote from: shmokes on September 18, 2008, 10:19:03 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on September 18, 2008, 08:58:45 pm ---
Look at your keyboard. Type "shmokes", but instead hit each key one up and to the left for this - it becomes "wdyj9i3w"
--- End quote ---
The thing about this that just makes me laugh my head off is that it doesn't even begin to satisfy my problem. ;D
--- End quote ---
You sound like a woman. "But -I'm- not satisfied..."
It was a generic example for the 99% of us that don't need to use an umlaut in our passwords. :)
--- End quote ---
Besides you can also choose to press the shift key during this "conversion". Or simply add a number and one of the special characters to the password that you were using before.
I personally often use the trick of replacing certain letters with numbers (o=0, i or l=1, e=3 etc)
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