HAL: "I'm sorry, USER, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Posted on 08/30/2018 3:55:16 AM PDT by sodpoodle
Why seniors never change their passwords
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: 50damnBoiledCabbages ShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow!
WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.
USER: ReallyPissedOff50DamnBoiledCabbages ShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow
WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use
Spot on. Same stupid crap at work.
considering that we have ten choices for numbers: 1234567890
and 26 alpha choices: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
the mathematical combinations are mind boggling.
Perhaps I really am getting old and cranky but computer “security” is really out of hand.
I’ve got about a thousand passwords, they all need to follow different rules, they all expire and need to be replaced. Tech support never helps worth a damn. And I most emphatically DON’T feel that these systems are at all secure. The passwords don’t really help me. They just make my life difficult.
We should have ID cards that can be slotted into machines, retinal scans, and 4-digit PIN numbers that never change. One method of access for everything. Including voting machines.
Excellent
****We should have ID cards that can be slotted into machines, retinal scans, and 4-digit PIN numbers that never change*****
They are called ‘DEBIT CARDS’!!!!! Lol!
A longer password is generally more computationally secure than an 8 character password made with special characters, and can be much easier to remember, so you don’t wind up having to write it down.
For example, using a friends address, like Joe1523Hollingswood.
Yes, so true.
“We should have ID cards that can be slotted into machines, retinal scans, and 4-digit PIN numbers that never change. One method of access for everything. Including voting machines.”
Nowadays they can just implant an RF ID chip under your skin and...oh, wait...
permission to use, please?
I find it troubling that people can’t think of password when you tell them:
A capital letter, a lower case letter, a number and a special character and it must be longer than 8 characters, no dictionary words.
They can figure out how to post fake news to Fakebook but they can’t figure out a simple password.
Here’s your password: DJT4POTUS2020Maga!
Permission will be granted when I receive your password;)
lol!!
(it’s probably being sent around the internet - I get all my humor stuff by email from an old friend)
God bless
After I prove who I am I invariably say to them, just for future reference, IF ANYONE CALLS you wanting to pay money on my debt, don't ask who they are, just accept the money. Dolts.
HAL: "I'm sorry, USER, I'm afraid I can't do that."
Tech support never helps worth a damn.
Have you heard of “forgot password” link on any website where you are trying to sign in ? All you really need to remember is 1 password, your email password. With that link, you can have an email sent to you so you can reset the password.
I have had passwords E-Mailed to me several times——no problem at all.
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Depends on where you work. I work with a number of systems that do not provide that utility. If you can’t log in, you need to call a human. No other way to reset your password. And — quite often — the human that you reach does not know how to reset a password.
#4 This is why you need to have a chip implanted....
DoD uses smart card auth w/PIN. Its what I use at work.
I also use password safe as my passwod repository.
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