Unfortunately a lot of jobs require passwords and they use outdated security processes, forcing people to have the old fashioned “must have uppercase, lowercase, number, and special character & you have to change it every 3 months for no reason” passwords instead of the stronger (and less annoying) alternatives.
i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn’t let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn’t on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had “too many failed attempts”
Still frustrating. I generally try to make my passwords all lowercase in case I need to type them (especially on a phone). But a lot of places don’t allow that.
No offense but I’m kinda happy they dont allow that. Its horrible entropy a better approach for manual entry is using a randomly generated passphrase (6+ words should be enough with a special character as a seperator if needed) or again using the autofill of a password manager, there are many available for mobile devices. I recommend checking out bitwarden for anyone new to password managers
If I’m typing on a computer keyboard, typing words is easier than random letters, but on a phone it doesn’t make much of a difference. What I end up doing is typing my passphrase into my password manager on the computer, and then typing the password on there into my phone.
I do have a password manager app for my phone, but then I have to type the whole passphrase into it so I don’t use it unless necessary.
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Its been less frustrating since I moved to a password manager
Unfortunately a lot of jobs require passwords and they use outdated security processes, forcing people to have the old fashioned “must have uppercase, lowercase, number, and special character & you have to change it every 3 months for no reason” passwords instead of the stronger (and less annoying) alternatives.
Must be changed every month, can’t use a previous password, AND, for some fucking reason, can only contain 8 characters.
And if you forgot your password, you can call IT and they’ll just read it to you because they have them all saved somewhere.
That was a great place to work at.
i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn’t let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn’t on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had “too many failed attempts”
Sounds like it’s prime time for a SQL-injection
that’s exactly why a password manager works. there’s a generator that you can configure to meet requirements
Still frustrating. I generally try to make my passwords all lowercase in case I need to type them (especially on a phone). But a lot of places don’t allow that.
No offense but I’m kinda happy they dont allow that. Its horrible entropy a better approach for manual entry is using a randomly generated passphrase (6+ words should be enough with a special character as a seperator if needed) or again using the autofill of a password manager, there are many available for mobile devices. I recommend checking out bitwarden for anyone new to password managers
If I’m typing on a computer keyboard, typing words is easier than random letters, but on a phone it doesn’t make much of a difference. What I end up doing is typing my passphrase into my password manager on the computer, and then typing the password on there into my phone.
I do have a password manager app for my phone, but then I have to type the whole passphrase into it so I don’t use it unless necessary.