I got yer password…I got yer password RIGHT HERE!
So I’m at work and I’m trying to log into our credit card transaction log and it’s telling me that my password has expired and that I have to reset it to a new password.
I HATE THAT. Why can’t it just let me keep my old password? Why do I have to come up with a new one every stupid month?
So being the docile sheep that I am, I continue on to the Change Password screen only you have to enter the old password in order to change the password.
I don’t know my old password.
See, I have all my passwords stored in my browser and all you techno security geniuses who think I might as well just hand my head over to the identity terrorists can just SHOVE IT because I have a hard enough time remembering which brand of toothpaste to buy and there is simply no space in my head for remembering if this is the password that requires 6 letters or 8 letters or a combination of letters and numbers or mixed upper/lowercase or 5 all numeric values or if I chose this password or if it was assigned by my company and I could swear my password was ******, or was that last month’s? and I’ve had to change it 6 times since then so I don’t have the first friggin clue as to what’s behind those stupid little stars.
But I can’t use the little stars now because I have to TYPE my old password in order to change it against my will to the NEW password.
So I have to go back to the login screen and click “Forget your password?” and it wants to know my email address and my login (which, fortunately, Firefox also remembers) and… my pet’s name?
I have 2 pets and at the time I signed up with this account I had 3. Let the guessing begin.
So I finally get my email and they don’t just send me my password in the email because that would be WAY TOO EASY - they make a temporary authorization for me to change my password, so that then I can log in to change my password.
So I log in and change the password and then I remember that I need to go update the password in my browser so that I can forget it again, so I find the place where I can manage all my stored passwords and GUESS WHAT???
It lists all my passwords right there in front of me so I could have gone there to look it up the whole time and GUESS WHAT ELSE???
The New! Password! that I just spent half an hour trying to change to? It’s exactly the same password I had before.
February 1st, 2007 at 5:36 pm
I feel your frustration! I get locked out of my various online accounts all the time because I’ve made too many incorrect password guesses. There’s gotta be a better way. We should be able to hook up a finger print scanner to the computer and log in that way.
February 1st, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Here’s an idea that should work for anyone when it come to password management.
First come up with a sufficiently complex password approximately 8+ characters. Make sure to use numbers letters and punctuation characters. Then when a site askes you to change the password. Simply add on or change a single character usually in a increasing or decreasing fashion. Most systems will not remember more then 10 previous or old passwords so you can go back to the start password. For example, I create a password: 1pa$$word
Then the site asks me to change it, a pain for anyone. So I change it to:
2pa$$word
Then again, when asked…
3pa$$word
Each of these passwords are considered strong, but they won’t get cluttered in your head. So you aren’t really forced to memorize a ton of passwords, just one, with a slight variation.
By using this method you can keep your passwords where they belong. In your head
February 3rd, 2007 at 10:27 am
LMAO