Sweetpickle (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2012 5:15 pm My solution to the password requirement was simple, if I was ask for a new password today I would choose;

Friday082312%

and write a % sign on my calendar.

It's high quality and no one but me knows what my %sign means.

Ever budy dose now. Why did you post it here? Ernie

Bravo.

Dave (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:53 pm When I was working, the IT department changed passwords every six months and drove us all crazy.

You didn't work for the late, unlamented IKON, did you? Our IT people did this and assigned us password that were impossible to remember. Therefore, every company computer had the password sticky noted to it. That really made the system secure, didn't it boys and girls?

Speed

speedvogel (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:44 pm That really made the system secure, didn't it boys and girls?

Absolutely.

They also blocked all porn and flesh pictures from the search results. It was pathetic to see those results...

HOWEVER,

You know all those asinine shock jock radio hosts that created the "babe of the day" (women so insecure that they would send their pictures into radio talk show hosts to be drooled over and leered at?" well, that was the way around "no porn, no flesh" settings.

The IT guys showed me that dodge after I showed them how to bugger the YAHOO search results to get only porn and flesh through the filter. IT was a pissing contest between friends.

We were forbidden from using the computers in conference rooms when we visited the other locations because they had special accounts and you might put porn on them -- of course they had no monitors so the users had to use the projected screens that everyone could see. Think of that -- secretly searching out porn on a screen 8 by 12 feet large.

That's why I love "

transward (imported) wrote: Fri Aug 24, 2012 1:24 pm MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofyPhoenix

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I have a method where I can create a 20-character password, seemingly random, impervious to dictionary password attacks, that I can remember quite easily. I've never had a problem with the capitalization, special characters, or other requirements my IT or banks have thrown at me. This method would also work if computers become powerful enough and it would require a 40-character password at some point.

And no, I won't discuss it beyond that. But lets say with current PC's the password checker sites told me it would take 105 trillion years to decipher my 20-character password and no, I didn't use the actual password, just something analagous to it.

I've only ever told one person how I do it, and that was 10-years ago.

Never been hacked.

--LT

use a "safe for work" book or manual. use a small sticky note for a page marker. print a line # on the back of the sticky where it won't be seen when stuck to the page. so a 12 character password might look like; "p30,ln12:Bro". if i'd finished the line it would look like; "p30,ln12:BrownJ8OuterDr652-3586". uppercase, lowercase, numbers & special characters. hitting 20+ characters for very long passwords shouldn't be too much trouble. and hey, EVERYBODY has a phonebook. if u want to trip up anybody poking around your desk, put the sticky on the page opposite your password & then underline or highlight something on the same page as the sticky.