Some of the conditions required of our passwords nowadays are ridiculous. My company log-in looks something like this: hSd87T5gC%23E. How the hell am I supposed to remember something like that?!
March 16th, 2008 t-n-t #158: Secure That Password
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I still remember those days when your birthday day was enough to feel secure, but now….
I’m having this problem at work right now. There’s some kind of AI that can detect old passwords, words in the dictionary… stuff like that… I guess.. And just keeps locking my account out. So I start having the helpdesk make up passwords for me to try, since they know the criteria. I still got locked out one time and it was like capital letter, letter, number, number, letter, letter, letter, number or some crap like that, and its like yea.
Pretty soon we’re going to have to do our passwords in ansi code, use a time counter password thats synchronized to a server that resets every 10 seconds, thumb print, retina scan, sperm sample……..
A hacker has 3 chances to guess your password. Seriously… give me a break… how many times in the course of history has a hacker brute forced a password in 3 tries as long as the person doesn’t choose the old 3 common passwords…
It’s all fear generated crap. I got like 20 passwords I have to memorize. BAH!
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