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Rant about passwords

It seems the older I get the more passwords I have to remember; between work and personal I'm at about 45 that I use on at least a monthly basis.

Now for the rant; it really pisses me off that every single place you go now seems to be developing different and more complex password standards; and on top of that the most idiotic places often have the most requirements; my gas card online statement requires capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and it has to be changed every 90 days, you know what someone could do if they figured out my password? look at my fucking gas purchases, that's it, who cares. Something Awful accounts are just as bad, 12 digits, letters, numbers, blah blah blah. Most of the people I know have started writing down their passwords and leaving them at their desks, SECURITY HELL YEAH! I can't wait for that day I can go to Bestbuy and get Iris scanner 3000 for all my security needs.

I've had my same bank pin for 25 years, maybe I should change that...

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Kidavenger

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It seems the older I get the more passwords I have to remember; between work and personal I'm at about 45 that I use on at least a monthly basis.

Now for the rant; it really pisses me off that every single place you go now seems to be developing different and more complex password standards; and on top of that the most idiotic places often have the most requirements; my gas card online statement requires capitals, lowercase letters, numbers, punctuation, and it has to be changed every 90 days, you know what someone could do if they figured out my password? look at my fucking gas purchases, that's it, who cares. Something Awful accounts are just as bad, 12 digits, letters, numbers, blah blah blah. Most of the people I know have started writing down their passwords and leaving them at their desks, SECURITY HELL YEAH! I can't wait for that day I can go to Bestbuy and get Iris scanner 3000 for all my security needs.

I've had my same bank pin for 25 years, maybe I should change that...

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Just download KeePass and use that to manage your passwords.

I am also sure that if someone got into your gas account, they wouldn't just see what transactions you had, but also any accounts you used to set up the bill pay, personal information such as email and home address, etc.

CapitalOne pisses me off because I found out their passwords aren't case sensitive and emailed them letting them know. This was a year ago and they still haven't done anything to fix it. Blizzard doesn't give a shit about password security with their case insensitivity and max length.

I applaud your gas creditor.

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Lastpass, duder. I don't even know my own passwords. That means they're double-secure.

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I should check into one password services, a lot of my passwords are company ones that multiple people access so I'm not sure if that even works.

I'm locked out of that gas account for the 2nd time this week, pissing me off, and no there isn't any payment info contained within, it's purely monitoring for a corporate account.

Passwords!

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