I hate passwords which expire. This is why.
Sorry your password has expired- you must register a new one. Did anyone discover that password and hack my computer? No, but your password has expired- you must get a new one. Why do I need a new one since that one seems to be working pretty well? Well, you must get a new one as they automatically expire every 30 days. Can I use the old one and just re-register it? No, you must get a new one. I don't want a new one since that is one more thing for me to remember. Sorry, you must get a new one. OK, roses. Sorry you must use more letters. OK, pretty roses
No good, you must use at least one numerical space. OK, 1 pretty rose Sorry, you cannot use blank spaces. OK, 1prettyrose Sorry, you must use additional spaces. OK, 1fuckingprettyrose Sorry, you must use at least one capital letter. OK, 1FUCKINGprettyrose Sorry, you cannot use more than one capital letter in a row. OK, 1Fuckingprettyrose Sorry, you cannot use that password as you must use additional letters. OK, 1FUCKINGprettyroseshovedupyourassifyoudon'tgivemeaccessrightfuckingnow Sorry, you cannot use that password as it is already being used
Sounds like one of the password protected places I use and you have to change it every 60 days!
hahahaha
sorry for your frustration, but good laughs
thank you, needed that
Doc, that was funny as hell! I didn't know you did stand up.
Sorry Doc.I am laughing so hard because i just went through that last night.I see i have good company
I finally said F it,will try again when i calm down.
The military is like that, with worse requirements. Leads to folks either writing it down, or forgetting it and using a reset every time.
Know exactly Howe you feel. Have to keep track of 8 passwords at the office and they all have different password expiry durations. Frustrating is an understatement. With two of them, I just have help desk reset my password for me when I requiraces chess. They complain to me...and I complain right back. Since the work needs to get done, they have to give me a password or they are impeding progress. It's fun...
The head of the software department for which I worked once required all software engineers to change our passwords. If we did not, she would forcibly change our password to "somethinglongandobnoxious".
Wow! And I have trouble with just my one. Not happenin'. lol
Well it is either Jd3jdn204$03kcmJDjdi2,zld or you use your thumbprint?
My favourite is the weekly "we disabled your account because someone from china tried to guess your password" e-mail from paypal or google.
I'ma just throw this out there, but wouldn't it make more sense to change my account name instead?
sounds like my hotmail account.Try to log in too many times in an hour and get locked out.Then, go to hotmail site,log in, never works, reset password, never works,have them send a text to phone with a code, get code, log in, reset password, go to mail.spend an hour waiting for pages to load. No sweat.
Thanks for the laugh Doc.
haha good one... i came this far that i use a excel sheet on a portable usb drive for my passwords that Excel sheet has notes how a password has to look like like you described 8 letters one numeric and capital included no spaces and no extra signs like "*|#whatever I have about four sites i visit where the password needs to be changed every 2 weeks... This can be very annoying, but it also does make you feel protected... i know a single site that does all the above but uses an authentificator aswell.The changing process isnt that bad what i hate is sitting and waiting for the email to arrive in your mailbox. This sometimes takes ages for whatever reason.
You didn't?
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For shame!
Personally I think it's better for a human to remember an obnoxiously long password rather than change to a short but easily-crunchable one every couple of weeks. After months of use, it is much easier to recall.
On the down side if anyone is listening to my thoughts then I'm like a goddamn password broadcaster.
Okay, I laughed.
It's funny now, it wasn't so for the two plus years I dealt with it on am IL State run website.
Good one, Doc.
Lol i get the same thing from my msn account.The reset never lasts long i just did a new one last week ,they will be asking me to change it again soon. i am running out of ideas
Well there are online options like LastPass (which admittedly have had some problems which I think have been fixed up), and a home program called KeePass where you store your passwords on your home computer in a (somewhat) encrypted form. I know that LastPass uses a master password, I think KeePass uses one too.
I work on websites and sometimes I have to write such login checks... imo it's pretty stupid and those conditions make passwords less secure (because any condition means there is less randomness).
For instance, take the condition that there should be two numbers in a password ... that doesn't increase security, not at all.
Or take the condition that there should be at least two #%&! special characters in a password ... that doesn't increase security either.
Only in an alternate universe to ours...
the only Security changing seems to help is IT job security.
At work you get a popup two weeks before you have to change your password asking if you want to change it now.
Then, every day or every re-start of your computer, it asks if you want to change it now!
Makes me want to change it with a hammer!
Find the dude at the other end and do this...
Take said hammer in hand...raise high overhead and with judicious aplomb.......BLAM! All done.
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