How Strong are Your Passwords?

[sunshine 2]

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at work we almost need a password to go to the loo
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At IBM, you had to use your badge to go through almost all doors, including the hallway to the bathroom.

At my work, i need my badge to get into the vending machine room.

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I get a Mike hug! I get a Mike hug!

[PLFXpert 0]

Yea, like I'm going to enter my passwords in your unsecure-o-meter.

Paint me in a corner, but my color comes back.

[happythoughts 0]

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Try 'clownpenis' its great.

You just never hear people say that very often.

Most women complain that the size 24 shoes are misleading. (and they make you trip at an inappropriate moment near the kitchen table. )

[happythoughts 0]

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...and none will synchronize due to the differences in password requirments.

At one place, the network password and the Windows password were different lengths.

Every 45 days, it would require you to enter a new 8 character password, however, you couldn't enter 7 on the other system. Therefore, when it synchronized the passwords, you could never enter the 8 valid characters and you got locked.

Of course, it took 2-3 days for the network people to unlock it because they were so busy...


My VP asked me why I hadn't answered his email and I explained. His reply? "Yeah, I've had that problem for months."

[Gawain 0]

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Let me get this straight. You went to a website and entered your passwords??

All of them....






j/k





I used variations on a couple, plus an old one (that didn't rate so well)...

So I try and I scream and I beg and I sigh
Just to prove I'm alive, and it's alright
'Cause tonight there's a way I'll make light of my treacherous life
Make light!

[FlyingJ 0]

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I need a cheat sheet that tells me how to reconstruct each acount name "lower case no space" and password "the credit card password has two digits in it and a suffix that I'll probably remember."

I have exactly that. I have an excel spreadsheet (password protected of course!) in which I keep shorthand versions of all of my various passwords. I use different single letter abbreviations, numbers and symbols that represent full passwords. When I have to change passwords I keep them inline with my shorthand and I can always look them up if need be, but don't risk a file filled with full passwords falling into the wrong hands. My list would just look like mumbo jumbo to anyone other than me.

I'm sure it could bite me in the ass if somehow someone figured out what the shorthand means, but honestly, if someone figured it out they would probably deserve to get whatever they could out of me.

Killing threads since 2004.