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Yup. We're at the point where people optimize their passwords for how easy they are to type in. One of my coworkers' passwords is a number and a capital letter
by nwallin 5y ago
Yup. We're at the point where people optimize their passwords for how easy they are to type in.
One of my coworkers' passwords is a number and a capital letter followed by asdfghjkl;' (the Enter key at the end of the home row is then the keyboard press) Every 60 days when the password update thing nags him he changes the initial letter or number. He just zips his finger across the keyboard to type in the whole home row; once early in the pandemic during an online meeting the characteristic sound of his finger zipping across the keyboard came in over the mic and someone said, "What the heck was that?" and someone else replied, "Oh that was just John entering his password".
Whatever this is it ain't security.
- Beltalowda 5y agoI once worked as a consultant for $BigEnterprise. They had a big sales department, and some their staff had these laptops they brought with them to their customers. To actually use them they had to enter a Disk encryption password, Windows login password, VPN password. All in all there were 3 or 4 passwords. They all had to be different. They all had to cycle every 60 or 90 days. They all very strict "security settings". Every single one of those laptops I saw had a little post-it note on it with all the passwords. The password cycles especially are just hard to deal with.