Harold Fuchs wrote:
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, ?????
There are web sites that can generate a random 63 character WPA key.
Perhaps he can use one of those to create his passwords. ;-)
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