Back in the 80s, when I did tech support, this was always a problem. People didn't want to use passwords, believing they were unnecessary. The building was secure, the office was secure and they were executive vice president of whatever.
I suggested people use a 2-digit day and 2-digit month interspersed with letters they would remember plus a special character or two. No password was case-sensitive,so I couldn't suggest that.
It's not ideal, of course, those who chose to do this could figure out what their password ought to be. It worked well enough, because the damned pw changed every 30 days and was non-repeating.
Mostly, it stopped people asking for password resets. I liked that.
yep at work we have to change passwords every fortnight for many different folders and I'm starting to run out of fandoms. Really annoying.
I'd never go for something as obvious as "Illya" on my home computer though, that's just asking for trouble. People could guess that by looking at my Amazon purchases. I'd do stuff like "Letscruise" "Nexor" "Souffle" and "Pussycat"
At work we change passwords on most of our systems every 30 days. I quickly exhausted names of beloved pets, fandom faves, significant dates etc and now I'm working my way through swearwords. So far, I'm up to Bast**d and that seems to be working very nicely - by the time I run out of numbers I'll be able to reuse some of the pets and fandom names again :-)
Since I work from my home office, I don't have to worry about it much, although most of my passwords for e-mail and the like are either very obscure UNCLE references or names from some of the fiction I've been writing. If I ever get anything published, I'll have to change quite a few passwords though.
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I suggested people use a 2-digit day and 2-digit month interspersed with letters they would remember plus a special character or two. No password was case-sensitive,so I couldn't suggest that.
It's not ideal, of course, those who chose to do this could figure out what their password ought to be. It worked well enough, because the damned pw changed every 30 days and was non-repeating.
Mostly, it stopped people asking for password resets. I liked that.
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I'd never go for something as obvious as "Illya" on my home computer though, that's just asking for trouble. People could guess that by looking at my Amazon purchases. I'd do stuff like "Letscruise" "Nexor" "Souffle" and "Pussycat"
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