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mr_dark October 23 2005, 20:23:16 UTC
So is there any way to suppress the pop-up warning about passwords? I've long had a dispute with LJ regarding their 'security' system. The dictionary they bought is faulty as hell. My previous password was relatively insecure and didn't follow several of the basic password security rules, yet was deemed okay by LJ. My more recent password follows almost all of the secure rules, yet they deem it insecure on a basis that is just ridiculous. (Their dictionary claims it's based on a dictionary word...all I can say is, the word in my previous pass is a COMMON slang term, and the word in my new one is thoroughly uncommon and nothing ever used in common speech.) In the past, I've known passwords of several girlfriends and now my wife...again, theirs are less secure than mine, yet get no flags. It's abundantly clear that their security measures are flawed at best, not even getting into the argument that this is an LJ, not a financial account that requires bullet-proof security ( ... )

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kimothy October 23 2005, 21:06:32 UTC
I agree. My password is a combination of words... and they all aren't even spelled right! The prompt may be coming from LJ (because their dictionary obviously contains all variations and incorrect spellings for every word and combinations of words imaginable) and the pop-up is totally pissing me off.

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qfemale October 23 2005, 21:28:54 UTC
>> The prompt may be coming from LJ
the promp is coming from LJ!
they recently updated their password security. Take a look at support, it's exploding with request about this warning! It's insane!

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kimothy October 23 2005, 23:19:10 UTC
Jesus Tapdancing Christ... It's just totally assinine.

I broke down and decided to go ahead and change my pw to something else in order to kill the prompt, but now LJ is telling me that the new pass MUST have a number in it. CRAZY!! This is NOT a banking site for goodness sakes.

I think I'm going to go contact support on this too. crazy

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qfemale October 26 2005, 12:45:47 UTC
>>I think I'm going to go contact support on this too
what for? they are not gonna change it and you'll just get the standard answere: we're sorry you're frustrated BUT...

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kimothy October 24 2005, 00:19:50 UTC
Apparently, LJ thinks it's ok if I change my pass to kim0thy. Oh yeah, like that's not easily hackable.

Their security checker is crap.

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qfemale October 26 2005, 12:45:11 UTC
*lol* yeah just like the spell-check!

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kimothy October 23 2005, 23:20:26 UTC
I meant... BUT it's totally pissing me off...

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fenixfreak October 26 2005, 02:41:33 UTC
anyone know who to contact to complain about this password issue? basically they are saying we cannot use ANY real word. so that leaves us with next to nothing to work with. i want to nix that namn message and just change my PW but from what i read here it's gonna be damn near impossible to come up with one that suits them. so yeah anyone know what we can do. this is ridiculous!

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kimothy October 26 2005, 02:48:41 UTC
I'll tell you one for you that will pass their security... but would be a completely assinine (and insecure) password for you to use...

fen1xfreak

I put in a complaint in the support center, but they basically said "Tough s**t. Change your password."

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fenixfreak October 26 2005, 02:52:17 UTC
man. it's like "lets give everyone such a hard time creating "secure" passwords...that they have to result to alternate alphanumerical spellings of their user names that are less secure"

i dont know about you, but im a paid user and i would think that they'd treat paid users with a little more respect, or atleast fix the damn security system they have running the thing. serious. they messed up bad this time.

do you if/when the time will come that we will HAVE to change the password?

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kimothy October 26 2005, 02:55:38 UTC
I dunno. I changed mine just because I was tired of the pop-up security warning.

I'm just astounded because jeez, this ain't a bank we're dealing with.

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quirrc October 26 2005, 03:08:29 UTC
just add a digit to your favorite password that you can easily recall.

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qfemale October 26 2005, 12:56:55 UTC
*lol*
my passwords is consists of 4 real words, as it happens, they are just not in LJ's dictionary!
It's a bit ridiculus!

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My password IS secure singedcat October 27 2005, 16:46:54 UTC


My password used to consist of just letters, so I upgraded to letters and numbers. It isn't English, or proper names of any kind, they're in another language, and an arcane version of the language at that-- plus numbers! It's eight frickin digits long! I don't understand, what do they want?

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Re: My password IS secure qfemale October 27 2005, 16:50:59 UTC
only 8? *lol* that's not much nowadays. Mines is over 20 digits.

>>what do they want?
stuff like .. sing3dcat, I am sure!

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