Exactly my point; I typically use the maximum length of password they'll allow, but I'll set things up for some kind of mnemonic.
I can't recall off the top of my head at past 2am, but I've got at least a dozen different passwords I use, and they get changed anywhere from weekly to quarterly (depending on how valuable the service is to me).
...but there's this ONE site: it itself will demand I change the password monthly, and then it's got to be between
six and eight characters long.
But what really burns my butter is the sysadmins tell me they can't increase the length "because of storage limitations", yet
their software tracks EVERY PASSWORD EVERY USER HAS EVER HAD (over a decade now, and I check the oldest ones once a year - yeah, wrote them down for this very "oh, can't use that" reason)...but no, user password storage is an issue, you shit-shovellers. Just admit that you never wrote the code for the password authentication, and you don't know how to either a) get the source code, b) modify it for something like at least 12-char max passwords (or b2) write fresh code for same), or c) implement the upgraded code dynamically into your system. Or even just say "it'd be too much work".
But please don't shove an obvious lie in my face...
Okay, so this vent might be more about human nature than password strength.
Oh, and on to a new vent:
Dear
tumblrYahoo, PLEASE quit emailing me about 'Here's what happened this week on your Dashboard!' - I know,
I saw it; I assume you assume the average tumblr-user only checks their dash once a week or so? You obviously don't grok social media users; I'm lazy in that I merely check the backlog two or three times a week; my wife checks it daily, and I can tell from her and my followed blogs that many 'tumblrers' are on
constantly.
...but what is REALLY annoying is when you list off highlites...and half of them are things my friends
reblogged from ME.
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it after all."
