3660: Take Over Control
I can't really get myself worked up to post about the manifold things in the queue at the moment--for instance, how traffic makes me so angry that words cannot adequately describe it [if I try, I sound like a petty shrew but am nevertheless convinced otherwise]--so I'll kind of putter about until I really feel it. My stories work so much better when I can cull from my environment [which I am doing more than I would otherwise admit], so angry diatribes really work best when written when angry.
Maybe.
Anyway, this seems like a good point to reiterate:Here's the Top 10 list of most commonly used computer passwords:
It isn't even that difficult to make a [more] secure password, but that anyone would WANT minimum security on things as important as banking, etc. is mindboggling. Facebook, sure--you can break in and masquerade as me if it floats your boat--but I can't then complain that someone broke in, and I certainly couldn't complain if they told me my password wasn't secure enough and I ignored it.
Mostly, I'm flabbergasted at last week's Neopets editorial:Dear TNT,
I have had my account for six years with the same password. It doesn't have two numbers in it (the account was made before the "you need two numbers in your password" rule), therefore I now get the annoying "your password is not secure enough" police Chia every single time I log in. Now, it's been six years and no one has hacked my account yet, so can you please, please, PLEASE get rid of the warning? I really don't want to have to change my password, and that Chia is very close to being attacked by Meepits. Oh yeah, and please remove my username! ~username removed
Oh, trust us... we would have removed your username anyway. ;) We totally understand how the Chia might be getting on your nerves, and we know an easy way to stop him from troubling you every time you log in. Just visit this page, type in your password, then two numbers, and that pesky Chia will stop bothering you. Yay! :D
Talk about lazy! Sometimes I wish I could retcon the universe and make it be called a "passcode" instead of having "word" anywhere in the damn name. [Granted, people aren't much better with PINs, though that makes me wonder why they're only allowed to be four digits... but "pass phrases" are coming into vogue...]
I want you to take over control...
Maybe.
Anyway, this seems like a good point to reiterate:Here's the Top 10 list of most commonly used computer passwords:
- password
- 123456
- qwerty
- abc123
- letmein
- monkey
- myspace 1
- password 1
- blink182
- (your first name)
It isn't even that difficult to make a [more] secure password, but that anyone would WANT minimum security on things as important as banking, etc. is mindboggling. Facebook, sure--you can break in and masquerade as me if it floats your boat--but I can't then complain that someone broke in, and I certainly couldn't complain if they told me my password wasn't secure enough and I ignored it.
Mostly, I'm flabbergasted at last week's Neopets editorial:Dear TNT,
I have had my account for six years with the same password. It doesn't have two numbers in it (the account was made before the "you need two numbers in your password" rule), therefore I now get the annoying "your password is not secure enough" police Chia every single time I log in. Now, it's been six years and no one has hacked my account yet, so can you please, please, PLEASE get rid of the warning? I really don't want to have to change my password, and that Chia is very close to being attacked by Meepits. Oh yeah, and please remove my username! ~username removed
Oh, trust us... we would have removed your username anyway. ;) We totally understand how the Chia might be getting on your nerves, and we know an easy way to stop him from troubling you every time you log in. Just visit this page, type in your password, then two numbers, and that pesky Chia will stop bothering you. Yay! :D
Talk about lazy! Sometimes I wish I could retcon the universe and make it be called a "passcode" instead of having "word" anywhere in the damn name. [Granted, people aren't much better with PINs, though that makes me wonder why they're only allowed to be four digits... but "pass phrases" are coming into vogue...]
I want you to take over control...