I have my passwords on a sticky-note taped to my monitor. Really, if you can break into the building, and sneak past the security doors on every floor, and get into my cube, then you deserve to be able to look at my hard drive.

EDIT: OMG, practically verbatim laisse-faire x-post with Theodosia!!

Even so, I cycle through four words, with the numbers/letters added in as necessary. For a while, I had every password on the same cycled word, but it turns out the financial people require a new password a lot more often than the basic logins screen.

Even so, I cycle through four words, with the numbers/letters added in as necessary.

Our system won't accept any password that's the same as any of your previous 24 passwords. It's a huge PITA.

I sit next to Information Security. No post-its for me. And we're not just defending against people who come in from the outside, but from people inside who a) shouldn't be seeing what other people have access to (everyone's limited to the least they need to get their job done) and b) might pretend to be you for nefarious purposes.

We have a, IIRC, 24 month cycle on passwords, changing every month. It was about that much, I think, before I could use my first one over again.

Luckily they've changed the systems so that everything other than e-mail uses the same password. That's another layer of security.

The school password system is fairly rudimentary -- you have to change it every couple of months, but they don't care what it is as far as characters go. Every so often my boss has me go into his email for something, and his password is always his name with 666 attached somewhere. Makes me laugh.

And bon? Thanks for da words of wisdom.

I hope it works!

I love this rejoinder!

Jane Austen academics have slammed a sexed-up Hollywood adaptation of classic novel Pride & Prejudice - insisting the movie is "totally inappropriate." The Jane Austen Society in North America, which also berates Keira Knightley's posture and Matthew MacFadyen's looks, have even threatened to cancel a special screening of the film at their annual convention. President Joan Klingel Ray says, "The film is full of sexual imagery which is totally inappropriate to Austen's novel. In one scene, a wild boar, which I assume is supposed to represent Darcy, wobbles through the farm with its sexual equipment on show." However, director Joe Wright is unperturbed by the criticisms: "They can go jump in a lake."

From IMDB.

My passwords get me access to a lot of stuff. Moon won't explode, I doubt there's been duel involving blood (I will NOT count grad students, especially if they've been drinking) in this field in the past 100 years or anything, but if the stuff I have access to get deliberately fucked, people could be fired, and I think there's also technically grounds for legal prosecution. Oh, And People Would Be Scandalized. Believe me, there is nothing quite as annoying as a righteously indignant scientist.

Needless to say, I'm careful. More careful than I am with passwords that contain info about me.

And Umm I just looked out my window and one of the redshouldered hawks is in the tree not 10 feet away. SO fucking cool.

Not looking at keyvoard. Postong by reflection in widow.

The scientists win. I am now broken, defeated, a shadow of the secretary I once was.

Hmph. Stupid scientists.

EDIT: OMG, practically verbatim laisse-faire x-post with Theodosia!!

Even funnier when you know we work at the same company.