Been down this road before. Some organizations make up silly rules for passwords like they must have two capital letters, two lower case letters, two numbers and two punctuation marks and be between 8 and 14 characters long.
Such rules make it almost impossible to come up with a memorable password.
Why sane IT person would limit the length of a password is beyond my comprehension. It just makes life easier for the hackers.
One of my retired passwords is based on the fact that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927: baseball:Ruth60HR@1927. Of course that password won’t work for those organizations that prohibit punctuation in passwords (Do you hear me AT&T?)
I used that password years ago and I still remember it. My current work password is 23 characters long. It is easy to remember albeit a bit difficult to type.
garcoa over 9 years ago
So you write it down and tape it to the phone, of course.
marauderdeuce over 9 years ago
Nature of the horrible beast – the sooner they get us away from passwords (as such) the better.
Zen-of-Zinfandel over 9 years ago
Passwords are like underwear, don’t share them and leave them lying around.
kaffekup over 9 years ago
That’s why we’re moving to fingerprint and pattern “passwords”. Probably retina scans to come.
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe over 9 years ago
Use the pin number under a coke lid, just don’t lose it.
Rush Strong Premium Member over 9 years ago
Obligatory xkcd:
dflak over 9 years ago
Been down this road before. Some organizations make up silly rules for passwords like they must have two capital letters, two lower case letters, two numbers and two punctuation marks and be between 8 and 14 characters long.
Such rules make it almost impossible to come up with a memorable password.
Why sane IT person would limit the length of a password is beyond my comprehension. It just makes life easier for the hackers.
One of my retired passwords is based on the fact that Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in 1927: baseball:Ruth60HR@1927. Of course that password won’t work for those organizations that prohibit punctuation in passwords (Do you hear me AT&T?)
I used that password years ago and I still remember it. My current work password is 23 characters long. It is easy to remember albeit a bit difficult to type.