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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
But there's a line past which they become totally unguessable by the owners, which I think is the point at which it becomes ineffective.
What's the policy in question?
It was very windy in Simi yesterday. Made it feel mid 70s. Huh. It's not rained much this November. My first two Novembers come back to me as a whole lot of rain.
8 characters, one capital, one lowercase, one number, one non-alphanumeric.
Also, this new system my university has just implemented is a freaking nightmare.
tommyrot, the company that manufactures the Rabbit with Big Pointy Teeth plush also makes a "Gilly" plush.
Oh cool - I didn't realize they were the same company.
I have a similar password problem. It's easier to remember if you start it with an uppercase and end with a punctuation like Emi1y!
That's the same one we have at my office -- you just need a system. How often do you have to change them? Me, I do something like:
So I could end up with something like Am1lio.ration. Or whatever.
8 characters, one capital, one lowercase, one number, one non-alphanumeric.
One of my companies has this policy. But it can't be any longer than 8 letters, either. Mandatory password cycles result in a lot of swearing from me.
Yeah, I mean, I guess they're right, but it's still annoying. I have a string of numbers I liked to use (with letters interspersed, if need be), but it doesn't have enough different digits for the New Systems.
The thing is, I have a bunch of passwords I remember to conform with various policies. I've only got so much brainspace! Also, if I log on every day or so, okay. I'll remember. But if, as seems likely, it's once a week if that...
(But I've gone ahead and done it. I used the password I came up with to use in places where I feel the policy is stupid, and made the relevant changes, e.g. Ri0icu|ous. It's pointless and petty, but it makes me feel better.)
Having had to call the support staff and have my password changed about fifty times, I have finally given up on being overly clever. Now I just cycle through Schoolhouse Rock titles. Capitalize the first letter, number the number, throw a punctuation mark at the end and it's done. Usually I doodle whatever number it is somewhere unobtrusive on my desk or bulletin board or address book or calendar, with the date I changed it. To anyone else, random number. To me, password in plain sight.