Bob and Mary Posted March 1, 2014 #1 Posted March 1, 2014 The IT department was checking passwords and stopped at one young lady’s desk. They told her they thought her password was unusually long and asked if they could help her shorten it. She said that it was so long because of the rules the IT department had for pass words. The IT man said that they had her password as ”Huey, Dewy Louie, Donald, Daisy, Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Indianapolis”. She said yes, that’s because of your rules… It says in the handbook that “All passwords must be 8 characters long and contain at least one capital”
Mike G in SC Posted March 1, 2014 #2 Posted March 1, 2014 My boss insisted he knew his secretary's password, saw her key it. Said it was *****.
BoomerCPO Posted March 1, 2014 #3 Posted March 1, 2014 My boss insisted he knew his secretary's password, saw her key it. Said it was *****. :rotf: Boomer
bongobobny Posted March 2, 2014 #4 Posted March 2, 2014 How many of you have used password as your password, huh?!!?
Flyinfool Posted March 2, 2014 #5 Posted March 2, 2014 password is one of the most commonly used passwords. According to a hackers website, here are the 25 most common passwords of 2013, along with the change in rank from last year. 1. 123456 (Up 1) 2. password (Down 1) 3. 12345678 (Unchanged) 4. qwerty (Up 1) 5. abc123 (Down 1) 6. 123456789 (New) 7. 111111 ( Up 2) 8. 1234567 (Up 5) 9. iloveyou (Up 2) 10. adobe123 (New) 11. 123123 (Up 5) 12. admin (New) 13. 1234567890 (New) 14. letmein (Down 7) 15. photoshop (New) 16. 1234 (New) 17. monkey (Down 11) 18. shadow (Unchanged) 19. sunshine (Down 5) 20. 12345 (New) 21. password1 (up 4) 22. princess (New) 23. azerty (New) 24. trustno1 (Down12) 25. 000000 (New)
SilvrT Posted March 2, 2014 #6 Posted March 2, 2014 Several years ago when I was teaching introduction to Windows 95 to a group of office workers we got on the subject of passwords in a corporate workplace. Keep in mind that most of these people were fairly new to Windows; however they did have to key in usernames and passwords in various other internal business applications. One person in particular had 10 different passwords. I asked her "how do you manage to remember them all?" Her reply: "Oh, that's no problem ... I have them all written down on a sticky note stuck to my monitor!" :doh:
greg_in_london Posted March 3, 2014 #7 Posted March 3, 2014 I worked for a local authority a few years ago and came across an IT policy that said everyone had to change their password every month and that it had to have three out of capitals, special characters and numbers, no recognisable words or number sequences and no sequence from a password that had been used before. And not be written down. And you could do no work without the password and contacting IT to reset it would mean a day not being able to work. Needless to say the policy was completely ignored, except for when the system forced a password change, when we would all know where each other's password were written down in case we had to answer queries for colleagues who were out at meetings for the day. Some attempts at security are just completely self defeating.
icebrrg3rd Posted March 3, 2014 #9 Posted March 3, 2014 One, two, three, four, five? That's the same combination I have on my luggage... -Andrew
bendtdj Posted March 3, 2014 #10 Posted March 3, 2014 May the Schwartz be with you! One, two, three, four, five? That's the same combination I have on my luggage... -Andrew
RedRider Posted March 3, 2014 #11 Posted March 3, 2014 That's the advantage of having lots of motorcycles. They rotate as my password. Trying to get up to one for every month. Wife isn't too happy about that. She doesn't buy that it is for security reasons. RR
Venturous Randy Posted March 4, 2014 #12 Posted March 4, 2014 How many versions of "Venture" can you come up with? RandyA
Marcarl Posted March 4, 2014 #13 Posted March 4, 2014 How many versions of "Venture" can you come up with? RandyA venture1 venture2 1venture 2 venture Need I go on,,, it's easy!
Barry1951 Posted March 4, 2014 #14 Posted March 4, 2014 Our school IT dept did not think it funny when I uses "Bull****" as my password, , ,
alwrmcusn Posted March 6, 2014 #16 Posted March 6, 2014 Worked on my cousins computer this past few days. The password she wrote (scribbled illegibly) I could not figure out. I have a program that will find the password(s) within a Windows machine. So I used it and in about 1-2 mins I had the password(s) and got everything taken care of for her.
Flyinfool Posted March 6, 2014 #17 Posted March 6, 2014 Our school IT dept did not think it funny when I uses "Bull****" as my password, , , If the IT dept is going to keep an unencrypted list of passwords, then what is the point of having a password if others know your password. I worked at a place where IT kept the password list printed out, and hanging on a bulletin board. I finally got them to see the light and eliminate the passwords altogether.
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