Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for February 21, 2023

Not much of an exaggeration there

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

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

1234…5?

The shepherd and the sheep. Digital vs man.

But wait, there’s more ;)

If only this weren’t true.

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

and pledge your firstborn

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?

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

The powers that be are getting very fussy about passwords.

and a Heisenberg quantum matrix.

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.

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

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

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

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

Audacious hacker: and your social security and routing numbers…

ha ha

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

AAAAARRGH!

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

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.