Comments on: No More Codes, Please

By: claire

claire — Thu, 09 Feb 2006 00:57:38 +0000

This reminds me of a day in high school when I could not get my locker combination right even though I’d had the same locker for 3 years. I had to wait until the women from the office finished lunch before someone would look it up for me. (I’d transposed 2 digits for some reason.)

Oh for locker #317 which I’d had before. 37-11-1. If only I could use that brain space for new passwords and usernames.

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 23:20:50 +0000

I can’t even recall my own phone number. All of my website usernames and passwords get changed on a monthly basis because I’m too paranoid to write them down and completely incapable of remembering them.

By: The Centaur

The Centaur — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 18:12:56 +0000

Nowadays, they try and make it easy by asking you a pre-answered security question. Passwords derived from questions like “What is your favorite movie?” are meant to simplify the process.

Of course, the inherent flaw here is that your tastes cannot evolve over time. Your favorite movie in 2002 had better withstand the test of time if you want to access your bank account in 2006.

By: cassie-b

cassie-b — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:03:49 +0000

I’m with you. I’ve always figured that the day I go to work and can’t remember my passwords should be my last day of working.

Cas
Thanks for the laugh.

By: The Daily Drip

The Daily Drip — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:25:34 +0000

No More Codes, Please.

Here here!…

By: Thoughtsgalore

Thoughtsgalore — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 01:17:46 +0000

I’m an 8-er. I love the 8 digit code. Then you can do repeaters. Like…ABAB CDCD. Yes, simple ugh. LOL..if you figured out my one code…you’d be able to hack into anything I had. Voicemail, atm card, alarm system, all my screenames and computer crap. LOL. I’m easy.

Ooooh VIP strip club card. Wow…The NY Post and a VIP card. You’re one cool guy Mr. Pauly D.
xoxo
C

By: H.F. Peterman

H.F. Peterman — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 21:10:22 +0000

BOSCO

By: better safe than sorry

better safe than sorry — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:26:25 +0000

i have two different passwords that i use for everything, so if the first one i try didn’t work, i try the other. it makes things much easier. now if i could only remember my kids birthdates.

By: Shevy

Shevy — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:10:11 +0000

And when you lose your password, and you want to request a new password by e-mail, you have to remember which of your many e-mail addresses you registered with. When you finally remember that, and you give them the e-mail address, you can’t sign on your yahoo or gmail account, because YOU FORGOT THE PASSWORD! If you do remember the password for that e-mail account, fine, you sign on, you get your new password which is a combination of letters spit out by a computer. Instead of changing it to your default (9, would it be in your case) you attempt to memorize the computer generated one.

BTW. I’m really enjoying your blog. Thanks.

By: sandra

sandra — Mon, 06 Feb 2006 19:00:51 +0000

A few years back, we (we meaning the government) discovered that I shared a SSN with some middle-aged guy in North Carolina and I was assigned a new one. I’m still rather thrown by it, and often start to recite my old one — aka, middle-aged guy’s current one — when asked for my SSN. Oh…woe is me.