Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for February 21, 2023

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    C  over 1 year ago

    Not much of an exaggeration there

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    Superfrog  over 1 year ago

    ..and the second line of a poem you wrote yourself.

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    rdav1248961 Premium Member over 1 year ago

    And you have to change it every week, without repeating a previous password.

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    The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago

    1234…5?

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    sandpiper  over 1 year ago

    The shepherd and the sheep. Digital vs man.

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    papajim545  over 1 year ago

    But wait, there’s more ;)

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    johnjoyce  over 1 year ago

    If only this weren’t true.

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    pathamil  over 1 year ago

    They just changed our password requirement at work from 12 to 17 characters…

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    DawnQuinn1  over 1 year ago

    and pledge your firstborn

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    purepaul Premium Member over 1 year ago

    Many of the most stringent rules are for harmless sites. I have one that reports my house temperature every 20 minutes. Lets me act if there is a long power outage. Who cares?

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    Zebrastripes  over 1 year ago

    Passwords are ridiculous on some sites! For instance, this one. Geeze, it’s the funnies, not a secured site like a bank!

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    ladykat  over 1 year ago

    The powers that be are getting very fussy about passwords.

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    PoodleGroomer  over 1 year ago

    and a Heisenberg quantum matrix.

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    dflak  over 1 year ago

    Passwords are one of my pet peeves.

    All these silly rules make it impossible to come up with a password that you can remember, so you have to write it down. I also use a password manager.

    One of the issue I have now is that I am job searching and each site wants you to establish an account so that’s one password per job application. Yeah, right, I’m going to make each one of them unique.

    A password should be long, hard to guess and easy to remember.

    I cannot express the importance of length. There are several utilities that measure how long it will take to crack a password. According to one of them:

    6 characters long = 7 milliseconds

    8 characters long = 5 seconds

    10 characters long = 58 minutes

    15 characters long = 1,000 years

    So make your passwords at least 10 characters long. Most hackers won’t spend that much time on them and move onto lower hanging fruit.

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    goboboyd  over 1 year ago

    The third paragraph of The Charge Of The Light Brigade no longer qualifies? Oh well, copy and paste to the rescue.

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    timinwsac Premium Member over 1 year ago

    The password I use the most often is the pledge of allegiance in binary.

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    ScratchyPDX  over 1 year ago

    “I’ll take a ‘Q’ , another ‘Q’ , a third ‘Q’ and the symbol for Batman”

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    ArcticFox Premium Member over 1 year ago

    kK&:)PIDGIN/lived-died. (It’s all Greek to me)

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    T...  over 1 year ago

    Audacious hacker: and your social security and routing numbers…

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    Imajs Premium Member over 1 year ago

    ha ha

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    Curiosity Premium Member over 1 year ago

    It’s gotten to where all my ‘accounts’ are so well protected I can’t get into them.

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    MFRXIM Premium Member over 1 year ago

    AAAAARRGH!

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    GemCityBlue  over 1 year ago

    Does Two-factor Authentication annoy anyone else as much as it does me?

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    ta4031982  over 1 year ago

    I thought is was funny several years ago when sites went from “YOU CAN NOT USE ANY SPECIAL CHARACTERS” Not that I had every thought of or tried to do so. Then one day “YOU MUST USE A SPECIAL CHARACTER” I used NU password manager that I am totally looked out of. BTW I just noticed GC spell check doesn’t seem to work when you use all caps.

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