It's been six months!

[ilanikhan]

Time to change the password on my @canada.ca account that I don't even use yet!

You'll remember the last time I tried to do this

Comments

[acorngirl]

I usually take the first letters of a line or two of a poem, add a date, change one of those numbers or letters to a symbol and put a cap or two in the mix. It usually tests as very strong and is a lot easier to reproduce than a ramdom key smash. :)

Good luck. I hope this password change goes smoother than the last one!

[ironphoenix]

"Can't." You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

[foms]

Heralds don't pun, they cant.
Bureaucrats don't either, they recant.

[siglinde99]

I hate all the different passwords I need to keep. I suspect my accounts are actually less secure because of all these requirements.

[ilanikhan]

I agree! I mean, I get it when it's your HR account, etc. But places like the pizza joint require all the same security levels too! It's out of control.

[beable]

Many of them really are.
Some sites have requirements so restrictive it's actually easier for someone to write a password cracking tool against it than if people just used dictionary words or their pet's name.

Not to mention the idiocracy of having stringent masks /change policies for sites that either
a) mail you the damn password ANYWAYS
b) don't protect anything important

[beable]

I have a gleeful policy with a couple of systems at work that dont need such extreme protection and which have obnoxious requirements or change frequencies.

Swearing. And sex terminology.

There is one system at work which protects nothing vitally important (all of the data is readable without an account if you know how the system works!) but every 90 days I have to pick a stupidly restrictive password that ALSO has to be exactly 8 characters long (!!!@!!!!!!#!@##%!!!)

That system inspires me to figure out how to make things like b*kk*k*, c*nn*l*ng*s, f*ll*t*, and m*st*rb*t* fit their stupid mask and 8 character restriction.