Jeff1234 it is then!
you would think its exaggeration but its fucking not. Had an overpaid asshole say he needed a password that ends in 123456789 because he was in a “fast paced environment” bitch remember two words and a number
I’ve long been of the opinion that passwords on their own aren’t fit for purpose.
2FA has to be the way, surely? Most people are going to be a lot more careful with their phone than with a post-it note.
Ever since the humble space has been supported in passwords, it’s become so easy to remember them. The longest password I had ever used was “A future is not given to you. It is something you must take for yourself.” At a hotel chain I did IT for a decade ago. The chain is shuttered and gone, and I still remember my password.
I have been extremely irritated in past places requiring short passwords that are also constantly changing every few months. The annoyance is exactly why people just start using “august2025!!” type passwords.
Just let me have a monstrously long password and don’t make me change it without a good reason.
Meanwhile, my day job gives a sixteen-character arbitararily generated password every single day. I have no say in what it is.
So I use a quill and a parchment and I carefully note it down on the parchment, which I bought at a renaissance festival years ago, along with the date.
I have literal feet of these passwords, three to a row, in tiny print.
It absolutely gets under my skin when passwords systems disallow valid characters for passwords. Fuck, even Unicode and emojis are valid characters, and would still hash to the same fixed length even if the password were 1000 characters long.
That�s right. Nothing could ever go wrong there.
IE6, is that you?
I have at one point used 甲羅が強い、足が行進している as a password before and it was accepted.
It’s not in use now, for obvious reasons.
The shell is strong, and the legs are marching
🤣 wut?
But yes, these make great passwords!
“The moonlight shines upon the guilty and innocent alike!” Haven’t used it in 15 years and I still remember it too
“The password complexity is required by law.”
Sometimes it nice to have regulations.
