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leapinlew:
Well - it seems your best option is to write down all the requirements and go to each website and change your password.

OR

Continue complaining about it here.

Fact is, as corporations and website owners start to realize how important security is they will continue to do what they can to ratchet their security even if it's inconvenient to you. One of the only things they can do is protect your password from a brute force attack. So, you might as well stop complaining about the passwords and start complaining why passwords are needed in the first place. If everyone was honest to begin with, you wouldn't need anything but a logon name.

Malenko:
I read this entire thread and my prevailing thought was "our passwords are slowly being converted to  l337$p3@k"

n00bz  :laugh2:

Ed_McCarron:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 19, 2008, 10:14:31 am ---If everyone was honest to begin with, you wouldn't need anything but a logon name.

--- End quote ---

He's a larval lawyer.  You're talking to him about honesty?

punxrus:

--- Quote from: shmokes on September 19, 2008, 08:45:42 am ---But if I "choose" to use the shift key, I need to remember which letter is shifted.  I suppose that I can remember to always shift the first or the third letter, but that doesn't change the fact that I've already got dozens of previously made passwords that don't have any upper-case letters, so I need to change them all, or remember that this password is special.

--- End quote ---

FAIL... :laugh2:

shmokes:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on September 19, 2008, 10:14:31 am ---
If everyone was honest to begin with, you wouldn't need anything but a logon name.


--- End quote ---

Wow . . . it turns out the answer was right in front of me all along.

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