How long are your passwords?

[sammyg2]

How long are your passwords?

Anywhere from 1/2" to about an inch and a half, depending on the size of font I'm using.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

1Password is your friend (or at least mine). It's expensive software but worth it.

I've heard LastPass is decent too but I don't want my stuff stored on anyone else's server, cloud, wherever. With 1Password it's all local - nothing lives on anyone else's server. That's how I want it.

[sammyg2]

I looked over a co-worker's shoulder the other day as he typed his password, it was 12 asterisks.

[sammyg2]

Speaking of long passwords:

A woman was helping her husband set up his computer,
and at the appropriate point in the process, told him
that he would now need to enter a password. Something he will use to log on.
The husband was in a rather amorous mood and figured
he would try for the shock effect to bring this to his
wife's attention.
So, when the computer asked him to enter his
password, he made it plainly obvious to his wife that
he was keying in
"penis"
His wife fell off her chair laughing when the computer
replied:
PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH

[sammyg2]

"I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."


ba da bump. But serial folks

[sammyg2]

Or ........................

During a recent password audit, it was found that a blonde woman was using the following password:

MickeyMinniePlutoHueyLouieDeweyDonaldGoofy

When asked why such a big password, she said, "It had to be at least 8 characters long.

[sammyg2]

"Sorry, your password has been in use for 90 days and has expired - you must register a new one."

roses

"Sorry, too few characters."

pretty roses

"Sorry, you must use at least one numerical character."

1 pretty rose

"Sorry, you cannot use blank spaces."

1prettyrose

"Sorry, you must use at least 10 different characters."

1****ingprettyrose

"Sorry, you must use at least one upper case character."

1****INGprettyrose

"Sorry, you cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively."

1****ingPrettyRose

"Sorry, you must use no fewer than 20 total characters."

1****ingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourA**IfYouDon'tGiveMeA ccessRight****ingNow!

"Sorry, you cannot use punctuation."

1****ingPrettyRoseShovedUpYourA**IfYouDontGiveMeAc cessRight****ingNow

"Sorry, that password is already in use."

[ckelly78z]

Mine is 13 characters and rather odd.

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by ckelly78z

Mine is 13 characters and rather odd.

[rusnak]

I just use the passwords that Safari suggests, and then when I get home and use the WindowsPC I have to request new ones. Only Pelican has my OG 1990s password.

[cabmandone]

Don't know. I password protected my password spreadsheet and can't remember the password. CURSES!

[T77911S]

its not how long my password is its HOW FREAKING MANY i have! then to make things worse when i have to change one, sometimes it does not tell me the criteria for what it wants and it just keeps telling me its invalid. like it cant have a number for the character or the HAS to hav a number for the first character. Oh, and i really love the ones that start telling 30 days from now that my password will expire in 30 days or the ones that log you for 20 minutes AFTER you change your password.

i have a list of 30 passwords in my desk for everything here at work. how secure is that when you have to wirte them all down because we have so many. i have 2 just to log into my computer.

we have a parts ordering system that about 3 of use the same ID and password because we have lost ours. the problem is if you dont use it for like 3 months it revokes your password and you have to call and get another one, so we all share one just because it keeps it active.

great, now my day is ruined because of all this password crap.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Yea - every silly two-bit site in the internet seems to require registration now. It's crazy - all about building profiles that can be sold to marketing companies or credit bureaus. People don't realize how much they're digging their own graves with respect to personal privacy every time they sign up for a new site.

[Holger]

Regarding storing passwords in the cloud:
https://blog.lastpass.com/2015/06/lastpass-security-notice.html/

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Originally Posted by Porsche-O-Phile

1Password is your friend (or at least mine). It's expensive software but worth it.

I've heard LastPass is decent too but I don't want my stuff stored on anyone else's server, cloud, wherever. With 1Password it's all local - nothing lives on anyone else's server. That's how I want it.

Well, well, well...

Looks like my paranoia is well-founded. Again.

Irony alert: Password-storing company is hacked - Jun. 15, 2015

I TOLD YA' SO!!!