This one had me laughing for five minutes. I hope you all got as much of a laugh as I did and hope you all had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.

Trying to set your new password:

WINDOWS:

Please enter your new password.

USER:

Cabbage

WINDOWS:

Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER:

Boiled cabbage

WINDOWS:

Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER:

1 boiled cabbage

WINDOWS:

Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces

USER:

50damnboiledcabbages

WINDOWS:

Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character

USER:

50DAMNboiledcabbages

WINDOWS:

Sorry the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.

USER:

50damnBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYo urAssIfYouDon' tGiveMeAccessNow!

WINDOWS:

Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER:

ReallyPissedOff50DamnBoiledCab bagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontG iveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS:

Sorry, that password is already in use

Love it!

I find it interesting that "Pa$$w0rd" passes most checks for being sufficiently random: It has mixed upper and lower case, some punctuation and a digit, and it's 8 characters long. But I'd hardly consider it secure.

My hubby got frustrated with his company's policy on "non-random" passwords and all the criteria they place on passwords for being acceptable--length, variety of characters, no embedded English words over 3 letters long, and, oh, yes, changed every 30 days and never written down anywhere. He wrote to the head of the IT department and told him that if passwords vary in suitability, there should be one optimum password, so the IT folks should find that password and tell everybody to use it. He says he never got a reply. "I guess to work in that department, you have to get your sense of humor surgically removed," he says.

Sandi

C&TL2745 (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:25 am Love it!

I find it interesting that "Pa$$w0rd" passes most checks for being sufficiently random: It has mixed upper and lower case, some punctuation and a digit, and it's 8 characters long. But I'd hardly consider it secure.

My hubby got frustrated with his company's policy on "non-random" passwords and all the criteria they place on passwords for being acceptable--length, variety of characters, no embedded English words over 3 letters long, and, oh, yes, changed every 30 days and never written down anywhere. He wrote to the head of the IT department and told him that if passwords vary in suitability, there should be one optimum password, so the IT folks should find that password and tell everybody to use it. He says he never got a reply. "I guess to work in that department, you have to get your sense of humor surgically removed," he says.

Sandi

I went through this every six months when I worked. It's a pain in the butt to sit there and create a new password.

I developed some really obscure ways to hide them in my office (and now my house). . .

C&TL2745 (imported) wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2016 10:25 am Love it!

I find it interesting that "Pa$$w0rd" passes most checks for being sufficiently random: It has mixed upper and lower case, some punctuation and a digit, and it's 8 characters long. But I'd hardly consider it secure.

My hubby got frustrated with his company's policy on "non-random" passwords and all the criteria they place on passwords for being acceptable--length, variety of characters, no embedded English words over 3 letters long, and, oh, yes, changed every 30 days and never written down anywhere. He wrote to the head of the IT department and told him that if passwords vary in suitability, there should be one optimum password, so the IT folks should find that password and tell everybody to use it. He says he never got a reply. "I guess to work in that department, you have to get your sense of humor surgically removed," he says.

SandiI'll just put obligatory xkcd here: https://xkcd.com/936/

In the end - the issue with changing passwords is solved with thinking of one password that passes the check and just incrementing the number part of it. Remember the base, and number of current iteration. no problem.

Going back to the original post your final password is Pr1celess.

I love how Google won't let you have a new one anything remotely like your old one.

For instance, if you used "HoundDog$1" you cannot ever use "2$HoundDog3" or such. Very annoying.

Paolo wrote: Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:52 pm I love how Google won't let you have a new one anything remotely like your old one.

For instance, if you used "HoundDog$1" you cannot ever use "2$HoundDog3" or such. Very annoying.

My work did that. It's a special algorithm that remembers and compares the previous passwords.

I always thought that was a foolish and encouraged people to write their new password on a sticky note.

Exactly!

Eventually, I run out of things I can remember and try stuff like "mydeskisamess" and then I forget THAT!

After the big Yahoo scandal, there came a day when they required me change my password. I went thru all of the above and finally, in frustration, typed in "FuckYouYahoo," which was accepted.