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Online password restrictions.

Specifically, the fact that about half of all websites now set a unique criteria for their acceptable password strand, with no common standard applied whatsoever. It's like the old phone charger rigmarole x1000. 

I've no problem with appropriate security measures but:

1) for a password to be a credible fucking password you need to actually provide either a consistent rule, or a reminder of your own site's arbitrary criteria when the user returns to your site. Otherwise you are expecting everyone to be Rain Man to recall the precise, arbitrary criteria you set months ago. 

2) It really does not require a unique Upper Case, number and special symbol password to access 'Glasgow Life' to buy a Celtic Connections event ticket. It's hardly viewing the internal network of the Pentagon FFS.

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7 hours ago, virginton said:

Online password restrictions.

Specifically, the fact that about half of all websites now set a unique criteria for their acceptable password strand, with no common standard applied whatsoever. It's like the old phone charger rigmarole x1000. 

I've no problem with appropriate security measures but:

1) for a password to be a credible fucking password you need to actually provide either a consistent rule, or a reminder of your own site's arbitrary criteria when the user returns to your site. Otherwise you are expecting everyone to be Rain Man to recall the precise, arbitrary criteria you set months ago. 

2) It really does not require a unique Upper Case, number and special symbol password to access 'Glasgow Life' to buy a Celtic Connections event ticket. It's hardly viewing the internal network of the Pentagon FFS.

Also, when they suggest you memorise the password and not write it down.  Right, I'll log it in my memory bank along with the other 50-odd I now need. 

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On 18/11/2023 at 06:10, hk blues said:

Also, when they suggest you memorise the password and not write it down.  Right, I'll log it in my memory bank along with the other 50-odd I now need. 

Aye and every fucking cyber safety p***k or p***kess says "don't use the same password on different sites" 

Aye nae bother sadsack, you might remember 50 different passwords but i fucking dont

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American woman on BBC Radio Scotland talking about the deal between Israel and Hamas pronouncing Qatar as cutter, its not even nearly the correct pronunciation. Irrationally seething.

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5 hours ago, Empty It said:

American woman on BBC Radio Scotland talking about the deal between Israel and Hamas pronouncing Qatar as cutter, its not even nearly the correct pronunciation. Irrationally seething.

The pronunciation of the word cutter in a Scottish accent is how the locals in Qatar pronounce Qatar.

Spoiler

Does that make sense?

 

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