Hilarious bit on password setting.

[riqster]

I snorted chili through my nose from laughing. Must have beer now...

[polly7]

1. LOL ... that's about it, too. nt.

[trof]

5. Yep, a website says 'create password'. No hint about letters or numbers until...

You try one.
THEN you get 'the rest of the story'.

[polly7]

11. Frustrating!

I just set up a computer for my mom ... needless to say, the passwords she wanted and would be easy for her to remember ended up being pretty much nothing like the final one in the OP (without the cussing, though I'd have like to!).

[riqster]

15. We used to have a poster in the security office:

"Dang. My password got hacked. Now I have to re-name my dog."

[polly7]

18. LOL, I imagine so!

[Wait Wut]

27. LOL!

[NV Whino]

2. I can relate to this

And by the time you get the site/machine to accept the password, you've typed so many variations, you forget exactly which one it accepted... and have to start over.

[In_The_Wind]

3. That about sums up my day.

Glad I was looking over the computer repairman's shoulder.

[LiberalEsto]

4. lol

[Chan790]

6. The funny part is...

the most secure password you can ever have, isn't one that contains any of those things. It's one that contains an accented character like:

æ ß ç à á â ã ä å é ê ë ì

ægiS1234 is more secure than anything one could contrive within those guidelines because most code-breaking software does not run permutations containing accented characters and most people would never guess them.

For that matter, so is scheiß.

[Gore1FL]

7. I have no idea how to generate one of those from a keyboard. n/t

[Chan790]

8. Okay.

Press and hold down alt. Now press any four-digit series of numbers between 0222 and 0255.

0222 Þ
0223 ß
0224 à
0225 á
0226 â
0227 ã
0228 ä
0229 å
0230 æ
0231 ç
0232 è
0233 é
0234 ê
0235 ë
0236 ì
0237 í
0238 î
0239 ï
0240 ð
0241 ñ
0242 ò
0243 ó
0244 ô
0245 õ
0246 ö
0247 ÷
0248 ø
0249 ù
0250 ú
0251 û
0252 ü
0253 ý
0254 þ
0255 ÿ

[Gore1FL]

10. Thanks!! n/t

[Iggo]

16. Well good goddam! That is some useful shit!

Thai you very very much!

[Xyzse]

28. I use :Þ a lot back then.

[Locut0s]

13. This is why I use KeyPass for almost all my passwords now...

http://keepass.info/

Generate 100+ bit passwords for all your sites and just copy and paste them. Only have to remember one strong password.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I say keep it simple...

but throw in a curve no one expects:

pɹoʍssɐd

[riqster]

25. Very cool!

[rug]

9. A teacher took an iPad from a srudent, reset the password, and gave it back to him with this.

[riqster]

12. Nice.

[Locut0s]

14. Should have used calculus / integrals :P...

That's pretty trivial to work out. Would have been more fun with an integral over some range.

[lastlib]

17. especially for a sixth-grader! Hee-hee!

[merrily]

20. I use the same password for everything.

Er, I mean nothing. I never, ever use the same password twice.

(I hope you bought that--or you might figure out how to see my online grocery preferences and find out how much I like brie, or something equally compelling. )

[riqster]

26. Be careful. Terrorists hate our Briedoms.

[merrily]

29. Of course. That's why they made them so tempting, yet so dangerous.

Calories and fat attacking my arteries. But so yummy, especially when heated in the microwave.

I'm so weak.

[merrily]

30. BTW, that was very nicely done. I enjoyed it. Thanks.

[riqster]

31. No problem.

I'm more of an Amish Baby Swiss sort, myself, but Brie is awesome in its own way.

[merrily]

32. Never tried that particular type of Swiss, but I will now.

Swiss is the only other cheese that I eat regularly. That I use in omlettes and sandwiches. Brie, on its own, out of a few seconds in the microwave, is my guilty pleasure. But, now, thanks to my big mouth keyboard, my secret is out.

[riqster]

33. Guggisberg is the ultimate Baby Swiss, but there are others that are good, too.

[Demeter]

21. Been there, done that, still can't remember the password

The credit union protocol was so strict, they apologized and simplified it. 6 months later. After I'd given up trying.

[OriginalGeek]

22. lol, funny and timely

just today we got notification of new password policy at work and it is an order of magnitude more complicated than our old one.

[raven mad]

23. You snorted chili - I unfortunately

snorted a nice sip of Alaskan Smoked Porter. Ewwwww. Tasted better going down than coming out!

[riqster]

24. Yikes. That is alcohol abuse!