To be fed up of passwords for everything in life?

Op i agree! Modern life is soooo stressful

But if banks didn't rely on everyone having mobiles and no real contact cyber crime couldn't exist. I am confident that banks are struggling with theft more than they ever did when we had no internet or mobiles and everything needed complicated passwords.

No. Legally, the onus is on the service provider to secure its customers data.
France has sustained a massive data breach and as a result, scam business is horrendous. Imagine your health, work, pension, school data all out there, for scammers to buy.

The issue is cyber crime, not the reinforced security.

I agree - I also don't want to give my mobile number out for everything. I often put in a dummy email or mobile so I know if they have sold it on. You can put the shop name in instead of yours, so you know who has sold your data.

Ps I remember when all I bitched about was sky back in the days we could afford it- you want to pay? Sorry it seems to be in your dps name, we can’t tell you how much you owe in case it’s easier for you to pay 😅😅😅

You gotta love two factor authentication that goes to an old device or the account/ device of someone else who isn’t with you when you need it. Couldn’t pay something this week because we couldn’t find what device the authentication went to, rang them and they said they could no longer do it over the phone. Had to reset account and go back to getting set up by which stage we had a threatening letter from them ending on a nice note telling me it’s easy to do if I just go online for it!!!!!

I recently signed up to BBC Good food. It demanded the following:
4 upper case
4 lower case
4 numbers
4 special characteristics.

These things happen by stealth, like AI. We are told we want it, it will make everything easier and safer etc etc. It arrives, all other options are cut (remember phone lines?) and then we discover it is actually worse than the old version and has implications for decades.

I have universal password which changes a bit with every different website/app. Enough for me to remember but still be unique yet not. Iirc most break ins happen because pasaworda leak rather than someone spending time to crack it

The last straw for me was having to set up an account with passwords to order new recycling bags from the local council.
By the way, recycling bags are NOT recyclable. 🙄

Because if your data gets leaked they can get sued for breach of GDPR, hence why they impose a rule to prevent that from happening.

Completely agree. I used to have a few different passwords for different types of accounts (with banking and important ones being stronger). But when they constantly ask you to make a new password, it must contain this, that, and the other, yeah I’m completely lost on what passwords I have for what now. My phone remembers them all, then I’m screwed each time they want me to actually put the password in.

This!!!

Surely, we can decide how strong we want our passwords to be!

If you Google 'Can AI hack passwords?' you will probably be concerned about the results...
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I have seen a suggestion to use a long phrase such as a line from a song or poem e.g. 'OldMacDonaldhadaFarm' or 'TwasBrilligandtheSlithyToves' .

I will, of course contine with 'Password1!'

A 10 year old hacker would get that very quickly surely?

I use a Password manager and the Authenticator app. I never have to remember anything and my phone is activated by my face/ipad by a fingerprint 🤷‍♀️

It is not just passwords, though. I have noticed sites are increasingly asking you to tick a box to prove you are human, not a malbot AND even if you are registered, sites often insist on sending you a code to your mail box or an sms, rather than letting you log in with your password.
As for password length and component parts, words fail me, although I definitely avoid using any third party log in info automatically - looks at google & facebook - why should I support their data mining any more than I already, reluctantly, do?

My brother works in IT, his way around it is to use the same random letters and numbers you get from a string password and at the end he adds the account name so they are all unique. For example xxDB#26zzywReNetflix, xxDB#26zzywReNatwest, i don’t know how he remembers the first part.

Use a password manager program. 1Password or Lastpass or Bitwarden etc

also keep the important ones written down on paper at home.

Just use the password storage on your phone. If it gets nicked wipe it.

I do this, a friend gave me it as part of a birthday present and it's been really useful.

As I'm getting older, I worry about what happens in the future, especially if I start to have memory problems, the book might help for a while as long as I remember I have it to look the passwords up in.

Surely that’s better than having your money and identity stolen?

All you need to do is remember your iCloud password and make sure your phone stays up to date on your account. Then you can always access your passwords stored in the keychain. You also don’t have to use the strong password option, just click ‘choose your own’.

But what boils my piss is for something unimportant where you don't have an account with your bank account details attached they want 10+ digits and a capital and a special character....why just why

Its a very easy problem to solve. Lastpass, or any password manager does that. All my passwords are Xh!fg359 type of thing.

God I agree it’s tiresome