# Password nonsense
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [November 30, 2010, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464 "2010-11-30T21:26:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/21 "2010-12-01T00:16:11Z")
To be truly secure, you should not even know your own password.
Rather, it should be a random character generator implanted in your flesh which bases its output on an algorithm which includes the immediate time of day, your BMI, your electrical impedance from left index finger to right big toe measured to six significant figures, your blood type, and a partial sequencing of your DNA.
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### Author:  [@pudytat72](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pudytat72)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/22 "2010-12-01T01:22:00Z")
(singing) And a Partridge in a Pear Tree (singing)
or
(singing) And it only takes:
5 Boxtops
4 Coupons
3 Labels
2 Bottle Caps
and 1 thin Dime!
(singing)
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### Author:  [@Gleena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gleena)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/23 "2010-12-01T01:30:39Z")
> [@runner pat](#):
>
> A hazy shade of winter.
And a Whiter Shade of Pale
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### Author:  [@Strinka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strinka)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/24 "2010-12-01T01:41:33Z")
> [@tr0psn4j](#):
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> And a captcha if you mess your password up even just once!
A case sensitive captcha which consists mostly of Os, 0s, Ss, 5s, Is and ls.
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### Author:  [@not\_alice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_alice)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/25 "2010-12-01T01:56:43Z")
some variation on an old phone number and address should keep you in good standing for quite a while with minor variations.
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### Author:  [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/26 "2010-12-01T03:51:31Z")
Puhleaze people!
Passwords are so last century.
It’s all about biometrics these days.
Rectal scanners for everyone!
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/27 "2010-12-01T03:56:32Z")
> [@not\_alice](#):
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> some variation on an old phone number and address should keep you in good standing for quite a while with minor variations.
That is not an amusing answer, try again please.
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### Author:  [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/28 "2010-12-01T04:01:46Z")
Colonoscopy. You have to drink two jugs of warm MoviPrep every time you need access to your computer.
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### Author:  [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/29 "2010-12-01T04:19:08Z")
Bonus points if you work for a company that doesn’t produce anything anyone in their right mind would ever want to steal.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/30 "2010-12-01T04:19:17Z")
New biometric sensors are lip based biological entities. You must kiss the receptionist to access data.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/31 "2010-12-01T13:56:56Z")
And he _likes_ it.
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### Author:  [@Atrael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atrael)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/32 "2010-12-01T15:46:47Z")
I’m in the same boat, 16 characters, 2 upper, 2 lower, 2 special characters, can’t use any of the last 26 passwords, and changed every 60 days or so. I think it actually makes the systems less secure. The combination that I use is pretty easy to figure out. It only has about 200 possible combinations if you know what pattern I use.
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/33 "2010-12-01T16:07:32Z")
> [@Icarus](#):
>
> > [@Scuba\_Ben](#):
> >
> > - No cell phones on company properly. Not even kept in your car.
>
> That was my last client - for real.
I was thinking of a report from over 10 years ago. The company prohibited smoking on the premises. Not even in the privacy of one’s own car.
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### Author:  [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/34 "2010-12-01T16:26:20Z")
My password is Graham’s number.
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### Author:  [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/35 "2010-12-01T16:32:42Z")
It must be in the form of a phrase or sentenced never uttered before in the history of man.
That’s why my password is “Tom Cruise is not gay”.
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### Author:  [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/36 "2010-12-01T16:44:52Z")
I have a friend who works his way through ww2 japanese battleship names combined with US battleship hull numbers.
For some reason, japanese BS names are not in the dictionary that their IT system uses =)
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### Author:  [@tr0psn4j](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tr0psn4j)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/37 "2010-12-01T17:50:32Z")
> [@Philster](#):
>
> It must be in the form of a phrase or sentenced never uttered before in the history of man.
>
> That’s why my password is “Tom Cruise is not gay”.
And now, you’ve ruined it! 😉
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### Author:  [@Morgenstern](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morgenstern)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/38 "2010-12-01T17:55:20Z")
They aren’t serious about security if there’s no DNA sequence verification.
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### Author:  [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/39 "2010-12-01T18:36:53Z")
I used to be able to use the same password for everything I need a password for at work. Now, due to differing rule changes, I have no fewer than 3 at any given time. The only way I can keep all my passwords straight these days is to write them all on a post-it note stuck in my desk drawer. Which, of course, _really_ helps to make everything more secure!
Passwords must include:
A phase of the moon
2 Greek letters
The logo of a fast-food chain
At least 2 but no more than 3 cartoon characters (Hanna-Barbera excluded)
A coffee bean that has passed through the digestive tract of an Asian Palm Civet
The Lost Ark of the Covenant
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2010, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/password-nonsense/562464/40 "2010-12-01T20:47:36Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#):
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> My password is Graham’s number.
Oh my. It must take you all. freaking. day. just to log in. :eek:
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