Passwords, argh
With all the things I need to do to get organized around a new job, one of the things I’ve ended up doing a lot of is creating new accounts. With new passwords, of course.
What really irks me is that there is *no* consistency in the password requirements, so, even if I wanted to reuse a password for a few things, it would be darn near impossible.
{0,2}capital letters, {0,2}numbers {0,2}lowercase letters, {4-6}minimum characters, {4-8}maximum characters.
The situation has gotten, well, frankly ridiculous. Maybe Passport (or something similar) wasn’t as horrible an idea as it first appeared.
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So you can’t re-use passwords — isn’t that a good thing from a security point of view? Not that anybody ever goes to much trouble to avoid re-using passwords, of course. I have been using the same 4-6 combinations for years now.
Comment by Scott C. — 2006-6-20 @ 9:15 am
Well, the thing is that having a different password for *everything* means that you have a lot of passwords written down, or, alternatively, very very few things with passwords.
It’s just a random frustration of not having any idea what passwords I used in which places. I suppose I should just let my browser remember and give in.
Comment by PugMajere — 2006-6-21 @ 2:08 am