Why Seniors Never Change Their Password

[markymark640]

Saw this and thought it was good for a chuckle.


WINDOWS:

Please enter your new password.
  USER  :
Cabbage
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.


  USER:
Boiled cabbage
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.


  USER:
1 boiled cabbage
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces


  USER:
50damnboiledcabbages
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character

  USER:
50DAMNboiledcabbages
  WINDOWS:
Sorry the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.


  USER:
50damnBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessNow !
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.


  USER:
ReallyPissedOff50DamnBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourAssIfYouDontGiveMeAccessNow
  WINDOWS:
Sorry, that password is already in

[carolinarider09]

I am lucky.  i use a program called eWallet and it generates passwords for me.

I just have to make sure I update the one on my phone too.

But what is strange is that the standards are not standards.  They are all different.

[old2soon]

         Happy/glad/ecstatic I wuz NOT drinkin Anything when I read dat!  May have hurt maself when I snorted Hard couple of times though.  RIDE SAFE.

[Tx Bohemian]

WOW!!!

Can I relate!

Between work needing 4-5 passwords, home needing 4-5 PWs (utilities cos, bank, ins cos, etc...).

 And seems like they all have different rules. So many letters, numbers, special characters, etc...

You're not supposed to but I try to use the same one for all, doesn't work all time.
Also you're not supposed to record or write them down anywhere, but I do (or have to).

THEN some sites want you to change it every 6 months or so!!!
AND you can't use one that you've used in the passed!
Just last month I needed to change a PW and it kept rejecting my favorite old choices until I looked around my desk and finally settled on "tapemeasure" and it took it. ( the only reason I wrote the new PW here is I forgot what site I had to change it)

[msb]

I think everyone can relate to this. I recall back in the day when Blackberries were the phone of choice for business... I thought the Password Keeper feature to safely store all your passwords was fantastic.... until I forgot the password to get in to it

[Jess from VA]

Most of my passwords are a small variation of a phonetic translation of EAT SH!T in Turkish.

That way when I forget (or didn't write it down), I only have to try the few variations...... except sometimes, after three misses, you are blocked out, and have to try again tomorrow.   

[old2soon]

                I am a VERY infrequent amazon customer. And once you Are logged in I found out you can't check out as a guest!  Soooo when I do go to order again I go thru the change the pass word routine. WHY can't they-once I establish my who I are-just send out the old password? Yeah-THAT would be too cursed simple. RIDE SAFE.

[gregk]

Super! I can relate.

[Gryphon Rider]

What gets me is when a site that no one would have a reason to hack your password for has strict password rules.  I come across this fairly frequently when I need to download drawings from a manufacturer's web site to insert them into my assembly drawings, and it's not like the drawings contain any information useful to counterfeit the product that you couldn't get from holding the product in your hand and measuring it with calipers.  Eight months later when I need to download the next drawing I have to hope that I wrote down the p@55w0rD somewhere so I don't have to "click here to reset your password" and wait for the email.

For personal stuff, I use the oneSafe app on my cell phone to hold my various passwords.  So far, it works well for me.

[gordonv]

Every site I sign up on, their address, the name I use, and the password, all written down in a book, in PEN now, so it won't fade away as pencil does.

You would be surprised how many sites you forget you signed up on. But when you change your email provider and need to update your profile, it really helps.

[Crackerborn]

I have three excel pages of passwords, login id's and other pertinent info. Now if I could only remember in what file I store it. 

[cookiedough]

I too have 3 pages of passwords saved and printed out as backups.

Is NUTS how EVERY single program has to have a separate password and what irks me is you CANNOT use them more than once in a certain timeframe and also have to be changed (depending on program) every 1-3 months which really IRKS me. 

Usually one version of my password if cannot use my old standby is a version of BITEME 

It works when I cannot think of what to change it to to remember it but BITEME I can remember.

[0leman]

The last 10 years I worked, I was a IT type person in an office of 50 or so folks.   We went from really loose security to extreme security, mostly due to a problem with the Courts.  At the end the users were required to change the password once a month.  They would be notified during login, the system would not let them continue till a new password was entered.   Had to have lower/upper case plus a number and a Special character (@#$%^&).   I dreaded that time of month, as there were several who always screwed up.   ME, I had to have two passwords, one for normal me and one for IT me.   At the end when I retired, I was starting to run out of names of trees, bushes, grasses, soils (I was a forester before changing to IT).   Thankfully I only had to change my IT password every three months.

Now I have lots of passwords to remember, have them down to memory.  Yeah right, the memory is a sheet of paper with all of them on it plus a file hidden on the hard drive.   

[Jess Tolbirt]

A husband and wife are trying to set up a new password. He puts in  "mypenis" the wife falls down laffing because windows says Error: not long enough.

[Mr Whiskey]

I have a leather journal cover that we keep the check book in. It's also stuffed with 3x5 cards because everytime I have to enter a new password I write it down on one from the stack I keep beside the PC. One card per site, so sometimes it takes me a minute to find it but I can usually access any site I've ever signed into. Sugar says we should jus' get a Rolodex, she could be onto something there...

Oh, and most of my passwords come from my dog
See, he gets a new name every day when I call my Mother to send him home in the afternoons (she lives "3 doors down"). For instance, yesterday she sent home "White Westinghouse" Tomorrow he might be Downy Fabric Softener. This has been going on for almost 10 years now so you see why I write em down! I actually have one site that the password is...
"fredtedjimmyjohnbillybobray"