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

Overdone Fuck it, hackers win.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16

I'm also guessing you have to change your password every 6 weeks.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '16 edited Jan 29 '25

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u/King_Baboon Mar 08 '16

It's every 30 days. And I forgot to mention there is a 14 digit alpha/numeric identifier number you have to enter also before you enter your password.

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_BOOK_PLOT Mar 08 '16

This is how you get people writing lists of passwords and leaving them on their desks.

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u/MERGINGBUD Mar 08 '16

What you do then is just make your password random keys like 93kHYdnia783jsyd7, to remember it you just save that in a file on your desktop named mypassword.txt

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u/pinkbutterfly1 Mar 08 '16

Password rejected: must have at least one symbol, excluding comma and exclamation marks; must not have consecutive digits (78).

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u/SullyKid Mar 08 '16

Use a crawl password. Ever since I discovered these (with the government, of course) I've always used them.

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u/epicshawty Jul 04 '16

ELI5?

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u/SullyKid Jul 07 '16

So on your keyboard you would start with say 1. Your password could be 1qazXSW@3edcVFR$. So you're starting at 1 working down to Z, then you hold shift, move over to X up to @, release shift, move over to 3, etc. you could do any combination you'd like. For example, instead of hopping over to X, you could go to C. Easy to remember and there are many different combinations.

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u/epicshawty Jul 07 '16

Huh, that seems cool.

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u/mentholbaby Mar 08 '16

the importnant thing is that you gonna write that bad boy down on a napkin so you don't forget the word "ajfkJsa601so!@fleb9js" and napkins can't be hacked

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u/mesolen Mar 08 '16

I'm just curious but what 2 factor authentication is 14 characters alpha numeric? I have worked in places with RSA tokens and other 2 factor but it's usually just a 6 digit number that resets every 30 seconds

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u/paulec252 Mar 09 '16

Oh every 30 days, and only reusing passwords twice a year? Guess my password is going to be "somefuckedupshit2" "somefuckedupshit3" "somefuckedupshit4"...

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u/viperex RED Mar 09 '16

And you can't use a password manager