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| Topic: | Regarding Password Rules This thread has 13 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 18:00 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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This came to me from a client. It was originally titled "Senior trying to set a password."
WINDOWS: Please enter your new password. USER: cabbage WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters. USER: boiled cabbage WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character. USER: 1 boiled cabbage WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces. USER: 50bloodyboiledcabbages WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character. USER: 50BLOODYboiledcabbages WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively. USER: 50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow! WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation. USER: ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use.
I responded to him:
I've always thought it was about the STUPIDEST thing in the world that when you type in a password and the system can't use it, the software doesn't immediately list ALL THE RULES. Obviously you've missed one because you didn't know all the rules, so you're just as likely to mess up again... so show me ALL the damn rules!
This is one of the reasons people hate computers. And though we love them, we also do hate them!
This is also a reason why some people have obscene passwords.
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| Post 2 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 19:04 |
Daniel Tonks Wrangler of Remotes |
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Some forums do that and it drives me nuts. They want 10 characters, uppercase and lowercase, at least one number, AND at least one symbol. And of course there is no indication anywhere up front that they want all of that (I mean isn't that totally standard?), so like in the example above you get "hints" one-by-one.
But above all, it's just a bloody forum! Not nuclear launch codes!
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| Post 3 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 19:05 |
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On July 26, 2014 at 18:00, Ernie Gilman said...
This came to me from a client. It was originally titled "Senior trying to set a password."
I responded to him:
I've always thought it was about the STUPIDEST thing in the world that when you type in a password and the system can't use it, the software doesn't immediately list ALL THE RULES. Obviously you've missed one because you didn't know all the rules, so you're just as likely to mess up again... so show me ALL the damn rules!
This is one of the reasons people hate computers. And though we love them, we also do hate them!
This is also a reason why some people have obscene passwords. Should have used 'ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow1'.
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| Post 4 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 19:10 |
davey28 Long Time Member |
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That's how one of my passwords ended up F**kanddie666
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| Post 5 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 19:45 |
King of typos Loyal Member |
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What's scary for me is my bank. All it requires are letters and numbers. My first password, for example, was "word1234". Then after a few months it required to change it. So I went with "Word1234"... Sorry, can't use any of your previous passwords. Wait what? But I capitalized it, that's when I realized that wasn't a rule. So it didn't care if a letter was capitalized or not, it still saw it as the same character.
Yet my Pandora account, the free one, requires all the above. Go figure, a place that holds my money is pretty simple. But a place that allows me access to music, requires a nuclear launch code to say the least.
KOT
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| Post 6 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 20:12 |
Trunk-Slammer -Supreme Loyal Member |
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My BIL who recently passed, used "password" as his password.
He figures no one would think of something so freaking obvious.... :-)
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| Post 7 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 21:23 |
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On July 26, 2014 at 20:12, Trunk-Slammer -Supreme said...
My BIL who recently passed, used "password" as his password.
He figures no one would think of something so freaking obvious.... :-) I needed to set up a printer for someone and in order to find some info, I needed to sign into the router. The system password was 'password' and it was my second guess- 'admin' was my first. I told her to come up with something that would be hard to guess and she did- caps, lower case, numbers in odd positions and it's a personal fact in reverse order.
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| Post 8 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 21:52 |
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How about when you finally select the weird combination and few day later forget and there is no clue anywhere as to what was required to begin with.
I start my password selection quest with just mario, and then progress in whatever fuc*ed up fashion the website natzy makes me.
I've used mario, Mario, mario1, Mario1, mariO1, mario1., and that's just the start.
Some websites require at least 6 characters, others won't accept anything longer than 8!
That's why I love the app Mac (I think) turned me on called last pass.
Not only does the site have a database of what the popular sites require, but the app will auto generate a password for me and more importantly, it'll remember it too.
I kid you not, this is one of my passwords: r3GygrcMFU/wEF_*x4j*.l-X0XEjvPfws%.g
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| OP | Post 9 made on Saturday July 26, 2014 at 22:15 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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On July 26, 2014 at 21:52, Mario said...
I kid you not, this is one of my passwords: r3GygrcMFU/wEF_*x4j*.l-X0XEjvPfws%.g Oh, man, you gave it away there! Now we can all get on those porn sites you've Favorited! A local college has some classes for seniors (which, presumably, one cannot attend if one has the same name as his father), where the joke came up to use the word "incorrect." You try to think of what the password is, you enter it, and the computer just freakin' tells you: the password is incorrect! How much simpler could that be?
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| Post 10 made on Sunday July 27, 2014 at 01:22 |
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Ernie, it's not porn. It's midget clown porn; get it straight.
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| OP | Post 11 made on Sunday July 27, 2014 at 01:24 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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On July 27, 2014 at 01:22, Mario said...
Ernie, it's not porn. It's midget clown porn; get it straight. That's the whole point, now, isn't it?
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A good answer is easier with a clear question giving the make and model of everything.
"The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." -- G. “Bernie” Shaw |
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| Post 12 made on Sunday July 27, 2014 at 02:15 |
King of typos Loyal Member |
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On July 26, 2014 at 21:52, Mario said...
I kid you not, this is one of my passwords: r3GygrcMFU/wEF_*x4j*.l-X0XEjvPfws%.g Gotta love Mac's Keychain. If you have another Apple device and you are logged in. When you visit that midget porn site, that device will auto fill that password too. If you to a search on your Mac for Keychain, you can view all of your saved user names and passwords. KOT
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| OP | Post 13 made on Sunday July 27, 2014 at 03:13 |
Ernie Gilman Yes, That Ernie! |
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On July 27, 2014 at 02:15, King of typos said...
Gotta love Mac's Keychain. If you have another Apple device and you are logged in. When you visit that midget porn site, that device will auto fill that password too. Oh. It took me a few reads to get this. You don't mean our respected member Mac, you mean Mac. I mean, you mean Apple's Mac. Now it's clear
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A good answer is easier with a clear question giving the make and model of everything.
"The biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place." -- G. “Bernie” Shaw |
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| Post 14 made on Monday July 28, 2014 at 01:58 |
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