Creating New PW: too funny not to share with you pilots here.....:)

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  1. CasendraMars

    CasendraMars Generation 4

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  2. daennika

    daennika Generation 5
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    Whether one might find this amusing or not, this is actually the safest type of password choosing, because a hackbot wouldn't go through that kind of thought process. It's also the easiest way to remember your password :)
     
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  3. fallout20xx

    fallout20xx Generation 2

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    That's a true story, I have lived it.
    I remember with special affection the password manager of EVE online... Oooo boy, it must to be long, must have numbers, not consecutibe upper characters, with special characters, and you can't use a password that you have already use... honestly... it can burn slowly in hell.
     
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  4. boise

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    I remember hundreds of years ago (well...) on an old VAX/VMS system, when a coworker couldn't log in with his newly assigned password. I suggested that maybe he misspelled it, but he just stared at me and informed me that the password was "alfta", which is the name of his home town in Sweden, so NO HE DIDN'T :)

    As it turned out, the the problem was that the system didn't allow passwords with less than six characters, so since "alfta" is only five, the log in software didn't even bother to check it when entered. The question that no one was able to answer was why on earth the system had let him assign a password that couldn't be used :/ The only plausible explanation we could come up with (except for it being a bug of course) was that some evil sysop had changed the minimum number of characters after he had assigned the new password. No one would admit it though :)