On Mar 14, 2010, at 14:35, jeanette wrote:
Oi was told me password had to be at least 8 characters long and include one capital''
It's a keeper; I'm still moping tears off my face and wine off my keyboard... :)
Just the other day, for some unfathomable cyber reason, my husband lost the connection to one of his password-protected accounts. Not a bank or investment account, but something truly silly, where you can't imagine why on earth a password is required in the first place.
He went through all the rigamarole of "8 characters, one capital, two numbers. Confirm by retyping" , which took him about 45 minutes, because, first you have to think of something that (you hope) you will remember in the future, then you have to hunt-and-peck it into the 'puter without being able to make sure that what you've typed is what you *meant* to type (no letters show up, only asterisks. Security !) and, THEN, you have to go through the process again, to confirm.
He was reporting his tale of woe -- with which I could sympathise entirely, having gone through the same wringer many times -- when I asked: "doesn't your 'puter ask you if you want it to remember your password? Mine does". "Thank God, mine does too", he answered.
Of course, if you let your 'puter remember your password for you, it nullifies the whole idea of "security" and "password protection", since *anyone* can now sit at your keyboard and simply click on the string of asterisks (aka "password") to access the site. Without going through the trauma of keying the d...d thing in. But, hey! That's the beauty of the "majic" of the cyber-era -- the machines have no sense of the absurd :)
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