You know all those special rules for passwords that drive us all crazy, such as one lower case letter, one capital letter, one number, one special character, etc? Well the guy who came up with them has apologized for wasting everybody’s time.
So, who wants to be first to forgive him?
n0W h3 t3llz Us!
Can we now go to the newer, more sensible rules?
So I can go back to using 12345?
After twenty years I still remember the pass code I had to use to get into the AOL account I’d just created right after installing it from the floppy they’d sent me. “dust dregs” and I used it only the one time.
I hate those ubiquitous password rules. I used to use alien words or phrases (literally alien, like from sci fi stories), spelled backward. Try cracking THAT with a dictionary! But all the stupid enforced rules everywhere caused me to switch over to lame stuff like Myd0ggy$, and the lifetime rules of all the passwords I have to use at work caused me to switch to stuff like Myd0ggy123 (increment every reset). (Those are obviously not the literally passwords I used.)
I would love to go back to my old scheme, or even random phrases.
I dunno. Pass1Word2! works great for me and is easy to remember.
He is a bad man and he *should *be sorry.
Even if you don’t remember, you can just look it up on the list.
Not only do the password rules suck, but I have incredible hate for the “Security Questions”, unless they at least let you make up your own.
I have too many with things like “Your High School”, or “Your Pet’s Name”. Okay, stupid to complain about, but for school, did I put the initials? “AB Charlie HS”? Did I spell it out? “Alpha Bravo Charlie” ? Did I just use the “Charlie”?
For pets, My current pet? The pet I had when I made the account? When was that?
I generally ignore all of them now, and just have the bank or whatever text me a security code, but a lot still won’t do that.
The ones I hate are the historical ones - name of your first girl/boyfriend? Ummm, I’m old enough to not remember. Or your favorite restaurant. It was ___, but they closed 6 years ago, & I really liked ____, but that was before I moved, etc. :smack:
I have too many real accounts, but if I were advising an 18 yo, I’d tell them to make the answer to any question, “Fuck you” or, “I can’t tell you that”. Makes for some fun times when you need to tell it to the CSR on the phone, kind of like Abbott & Costello’s Who’s on First. 
I’m still going to keep using “Guest.”
The Social Security Administration sent me an email telling me I should log in to see my status. Fair enough, typed ssa.gov myself into the browser window, logged in using the auto-filled password from my browser, only to be told it had been X months so I had to change my password. Hmm, never mind, it’s not worth the trouble, it is what it is.
The username/password combo of admin/password hasn’t failed me yet.
I would like to find out who’s responsible for claiming that submitted passwords have already been assigned to other users when that clearly isn’t true.
I have a hard time believing that GooGleIsExCrEmENtonToAst666 is someone else’s gmail password. :mad:
Anyone else see the name of the guy and immediately think of the comedian?
I have the same on my luggage!
I was entering my password which was chosen by drawing a shape on the keyboard. My co-worker watched me do it and said “Ha! I do that too”
At my work, we use a third-party site to log our time off, look at payslips, etc. I typically need to access the site about once a month or so.
The trouble is, they make you change your password if it’s been more than 30 days. So just about every time I use the site, it makes me change my password. And it’s one that requires not just upper/lower case letters and numbers, but also one of a specific set of symbols - not the same set of symbols my password generator has by default, so it’s sometime extra-difficult.
Pisses me off!
I like “What color is an orange?”
Easy to remember.
Tape it to the side of your monitor.