On 09/04/2008, Scott Meyers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> If you are interested in any of those issues please vote for them (I
> > already used up my allowance a long time ago.
> >
>
> I wanted to do this, but during the registration process, I ran into this
> password restriction:
>
> Up to 32 characters in length; valid characters are a-z, A-Z, 0-9 and
> non-alphanumeric characters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]()-_=+[]{};:'"`,.|/?~). Spaces
> are
> not
> permitted, and an underline may not be the first character.
>
> So I didn't register and hence can't vote.
>
> I know my protest is futile, but I just can't cope with places that won't
> let me use whatever I want as a password. There's no technical
> justification for it -- it's just bad design. It also compromises security,
> because the more restrictions imposed on the password, the harder it is to
> come up with one that's easy to remember and hard to guess.
>
> Sigh.
>
> Scott
Two questions, please:
1. How on earth do you keep track of all those humongous pass phrases?
2. Why do you consider it necessary to use >32 [non-alphanumeric] characters
to protect something as trivial as access to a public web forum? Bank
accounts, yes; public web forums, ?????
--
Harold Fuchs
London, England
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