I won't even get into how insecure that type of user name system is. All some needs to do is get a company directory and they have everyone's username.

First you FCM the hokey pokey, now we are porning potato chips?

You know what comes next don't you? Salad shooters.

Muffalettas being too obvious since the name is almost porny anyway.

Oh, man. Where are my advanced-math peeps? Correspondences Between TV Characters and Sets Containing a Specified Number of Items is the algorithmic bomb!

We have to have so many characters, including at least one upper-case letter, one lower-case letter, one number, and one "special character." I sort of do like megan does -- I have a "base password" and change one number each time I have to change the password.

Trudy, the same director that directed Stewart in The Tempest is directing Macbeth. Reviews from his performance at the Chichester Festival Theatre are saying it's the best of his career. Dude.

MEEP.

I'm betting that lots of folks on Megan's system have a list of 6 passwords written on a post it in their office somewhere and that they just round robin through them.

I once told an IT guy, "you can let me have the same password, or I can write it down. You decided which is the most secure"

In TV news, I'll admit to not really watching Daily Show/Colbert Report since they've returned without their writers (not because of strike support, it's just that I don't think they're as funny without the writers). However, I'll have to search up the full episode of the Colbert Report from the 22nd, just so I can see the strike show, complete with an interview with Andrew Young about the 1969 strike he helped to settle with a hospital administrator named James Colbert--Stephen's dad. The link has some clips from the show that I'll have to watch tonight.

Is anyone else amazed that today is only Tuesday?

Plus, our password changes every three months and it has to have caps and numbers and can't match the previous five.

Ours changes every three months, has to be between 8 and 13 characters long, has to have caps, numbers, and symbols, and I don't think we can re-use passwords at all.

This confuses the less tech-savvy among our interns so much that I've taken to teaching them how to construct passwords: "Say your mother's name is Jane and she was born in 1929. So make your password Jane@1929 or Jane1929! and you're good to go. Really any person or event that you associate with a date or other number, and stick an exclamation point on the end. Just don't do YOUR name or birthday, SSN, or whatever, because that's kinda dumb."

oooh. is it 'goddess'? or 'awesome'? or 'password'?

Close.

"1-2-3-4-5? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!"