To be irrationally fucking annoyed at sites that stipulate ridiculously long passwords?

[Libaebul]

I know it's for security but I had to sign up for something yesterday that wanted
•10+ characters
•At least 1 number
•At least 1 capital letter
•At least 1 special character

I try to create a password that has all of these things that I will remember, I think I did #123Usualpassword123, Usualpassword being the one I use for most sites but then it goes 'your password has too many repeated characters, please enter a new password'

This is a piece of work software I'm going to have to sign into on a regular basis as for security reasons cannot leave it signed in permanently. Obviously I know security and all that but I'm never going to remember it!! I wish when you went to sign in for things that wanted stupidly long passwords it had a reminder of the password rules so you know what you've put!! If a hacker really wanted to know this information all they would have to do is go to sign up themselves......

@chomalungma

Some places that ask for these only have a name and address.

Name and address is personal information. Especially address. Think of how many accounts use address details as security checks.

That gets very complicated when you start to think of the number of sites out there that want a password.

It is hard to remember random characters for every website, which is why I suggested a password manager or the sentence tactic I mentioned.

My favourite is when you have had one password, and you enter it and its 'wrong' so you try and reset it and it say 'you cant use a previous password' $!==€#£=¥@?÷=

I agree. My head spins with passwords, security questions, pins, trying to invent new ones.

I got locked out of my work email the other day, rang the work equivalent of the IT Crowd and couldn’t remember my favourite colour when asked

I also hate it when you have to prove you’re a human by clicking on pictures with stairs, or bridges or traffic lights. The pictures are always so rubbish and hard to fathom and who cares anyway?!

How about when you've finally chosen and entered a password and you think you're finally in only to then have to prove that you're not a robot. You enter the Captcha code correctly, only to be told that it's incorrect when it's friggin' not, or get the picture where you select the traffic lights which you do...and then have another and have to pick out squares with containing cars.

HotCross and the pictures are far too small when you're on your phone.
Royal Mail use them on their tracking pages, after you've put in the unique tracking number, and I never get it right first time. So much security when I just want to check if my parcel is on its way.

I ended up using a swear word and number and an exclamation on one as I got so annoyed with it. But it did take it.

I'm afraid I think you are being irrationally unreasonable. If sites don't impose these rules, far too many people end up using passwords that are very, very easy for hackers to break.

A password manager is generally recommended as the least worst best approach, added to two - factor authentication.

The 'multiple random words strung together' approach is also good. This is the cartoon that started the idea: xkcd.com/936/

Agree that some people need prompts to choose a good password but don't agree that the 'capital letter/random character' route is at all helpful. They should go by the 3 or 4 word standard.

Eg - most people would think something like f5*D_m9(W!a@ is an ideal password judging by most requirements but it would only take a computer 34 thousand years to crack. Sounds a lot to be fair but shinyelectricityrappingpotato would be much easier to remember, just as quick to type and would take a computer 86 sextillion years to get through! Even something less bulky like myhairsmellscheesy would be 23 million years.