r/mildlyinfuriating • u/King_Baboon • Mar 08 '16

Overdone Fuck it, hackers win.

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u/buttonstoyou Mar 08 '16

How about I just go to a new website, how about that.

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

That's what makes it even more infuriating. This is a government site where I have to take mandatory training.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16 edited Mar 09 '16

Well there it is. It's a government website. It needs to be secure. Password restrictions have always annoyed me on websites where it's just my shit that going to get fucked. Yes all of these restrictions will make my shit more secure, but if I want my password to be hunter12 then that should be my perogative. But on a government website it makes sense.

Edit: politeness

Edit 2: Jesus fucking Christ I get it. These types of passwords are more susceptible to brute force passwords. I don't need 20 of you motherfuckers to tell me the same damn thing.

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

I assume you didn't read the additional post reference the rest of the site.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Oh I read it. I agree that the website sounds incredibly shitty and awful, but my point about the password stands. It's a government websites and, thus, the password restrictions don't seem out of order to me.

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u/XirallicBolts Mar 08 '16

I agree except for the "no characters in alphabetical order" part. You know damn well everyone is writing their password on a Post-It when the restrictions reach that point.

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u/AthleticsSharts Mar 08 '16

Make your password the first letter of an easily remembered sentence. For instance "You can't ever be too careful" becomes: "Ycebtc". Even better would be "Uceb2c!"

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u/Nlelith Mar 08 '16

Just make your password that sentence - you're remembering the same amount of information, but the resulting password is much more secure.

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u/unaspirateur Mar 08 '16

Can't have double characters. "can't ever be too careful"

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u/Nlelith Mar 08 '16

Oh yeah, not in this instance, that's true.

But those password restrictions are horseshit, anyways.

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u/AthleticsSharts Mar 08 '16

There are character limits most of the time.

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u/CatastropheJohn Mar 08 '16

Yep. Go to any major business and flip over a keyboard. Password list in plain text right there. The places I've worked require logins to 4 systems, with password changes weekly. Impossible to remember one of them, let alone 4.

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

It was the very beginning of a very frustrating experience to take 4 courses online should of taken half a day but ended up taking a week.

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u/SaffellBot Mar 08 '16

I find at this point my password has become the requirements to reset my password.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

Look, I'm not sitting that your experience sacked. It sounds absolutely terrible. I agree with you about everything. Still, the password restrictions make sense. Just my opinion. I did edit my original post to make it a little less accusatory, though.

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

It's all good.