4 April 2014

Passwords


I just received this email round robin - co-incidentally from my brother Round Robin in southern France and thought I would share it with my long-suffering blog visitors (all three of them):-

Please enter your new password:

"cabbage"

Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

"boiled cabbage"

Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

"1 boiled cabbage"

Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

"50bloodyboiledcabbages"

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

"50BLOODYboiledcabbages"

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

"50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArse,IfYouDon't GiveMeAccessnow”

Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

“Really****edOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYour ArseIfYouDontGiveMeAccessnow”

Sorry, that password is already in use.....

16 comments:

  1. Yes and The National Westminster Bank owned by the crooked RBS let me type in either upper or lower case letters. They call them capitols and normal.
    Isn't it fun. They want the x, y, z or a, b, c numbers or alphabet letters on a sixteen digit password. Daft when I can buy a book on Amazon with one click and cannot recall my Amazon pass word. If Amazon can do it surely the banks can.
    I have never had a bad invoice from Amazon. If they started a bank I'd think seriously of using them.

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    1. Yes but you'd need a canoe to paddle up that great river if you ever needed to talk to your bank manager.

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  2. WTF? Who is the guy with the Jesus sandals?

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    1. Nowt to do with me Mollykins, he's one of those occasional blanket invaders. I could delete that tosh but I think I will leave it for the amusement of other visitors. It's probably funnier than my post!

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  3. Frances Garrood (I believe you know her blog?) has written about passwords sometime last year.
    It is a topic I come across regularly in my job; we even write Password Regulations for our customers (for instance, an insurance company with 1.200 employees). But we never ask them to use 16-digit passwords! In short, we ask them to use common sense, which sadly seems to have gone out of fashion a while ago.

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    1. Eh? What is common sense? Never heard of it. Is it what common people have? In that case I have uncommon sense.

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  4. All very valid error messages for password protection except the last three YP. Of course if Steve had to prove he wasn't a "bot" he would be stuck up Adrian's Amazon without a paddle.

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    1. Thank The Lord (Praise him! Praise him!) that you inserted the word "Amazon" after "Adrian's" and not the A word I was expecting!

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  5. Hard to say which is funnier, the actual post or the rant from the blog invader.

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    1. Saint Steve of "A Christian View" presents himself as a mouthpiece of The Lord but he has forgotten the eleventh commandment - "Thou shalt not spam other bloggers' blogs with pompous religious poppycock"

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  6. I came for entertainment with my coffee and it's what I got. Happy Saturday :)

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  7. Anonymous6:33 pm

    That was worth a good laugh!

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  8. I am regularly astonished by how unseriously people take passwords and then wonder why they are hacked. I have amassed over the years nearly 200 different websites which required a log-in password and which are still technically live even if I don't visit them. (Most people would be surprised how many such websites they have.) I used a vast array of different passwords but never used the ones with which I protect things like bank accounts and my computers (all of which have different and very or relatively secure passwords). I have gradually gone through them and deleted old ones and updated all current ones with a new and secure password. It's easy because I use an app called 1Password. You don't have to do that though. One trick is to think of a sentence you know by heart: "Thou art lost and gone for ever oh my darling Clementine" for example could become TaLaGfEoMdC. Add in a couple of numbers eg Ta3LaGfE9oMdC and you have a memorable very secure password which is unlikely to be broken by even a fairly sophisticated programme which can break any password consisting of a word appearing in any dictionary or a placename on Google earth.

    OK you weren't being serious but, hey, I haven't had my lunch yet and the afternoon's my silly period.

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    1. Given my last sentence the time shown on the post is strange. It was 0328 (UK BST) and 1428 (NZ standard time and the time shown on my computer). So to what does the 1528 (ie 3.28pm) relate?

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