Users feel Password Rage 388
Pcol writes "The Baltimore Sun is reporting on Password Rage, the frustration users have with the abundance of codes they are required to memorize. Some cope by remembering their passwords with the help of a tune or a phrase, some use three or four levels of passwords with the most complex protecting financial information, and others keep all their passwords in a database - protected by a password. Security experts say that with the increased use of biometrics, our reliance on passwords will lessen in the future. Until then, it's ok to cheat - but wisely."
Anonymous Coward (Score:2, Funny)
There's help for this... sorta (Score:5, Funny)
No problem for me. (Score:5, Funny)
Make Password Open Source! (Score:5, Funny)
The Open Source developers would also be granted much quicker access and approval to systems that they deemed important to their project work. This would improve fund generation and IP (Intellectual Property) sharing which are some of the stumbling blocks in current academic circles.
Only when we improve the texture-layer vortex shading in the Matrox drivers can be unleash the full potential of quad-monitor Parphelia configuration.
Which is nice.
Experts (Score:2, Funny)
I never thought I'd hear that on Slashdot.
Spreadsheet (Score:4, Funny)
Way to remember (Score:1, Funny)
VoiceMail is the biggest piss off! (Score:3, Funny)
First off... the damned thing expires every 3 weeks, secondly, it remembers your last 10 or so entries and wont allow you to repeat them. Also, the damned thing does pattern recognition... Ironically, the most secure thing I have is my phone at work right now!
Its gotten so bad, probrably half the phones at work have their voicemail password sticky noted to the phone. Weakest link is always the user, eh?
Remembering passwords... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Don't forget the admins.... (Score:5, Funny)
User: I can't log in!
Tech: Your biometric data's become corrupted, we'll have to resample it
Tech pulls out meat cleaver
Tech: Now, are you left- or right-handed?
It doesn't matter what password you use... (Score:5, Funny)
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A woman is helping her computer-illiterate husband set up his computer, and tells him that he will now need to choose and enter a password that he wants to use when logging on. The husband, thinking he'll be oh-so-manly, types in the following letters when prompted for his desired password by the computer... m - y - p - e - n - i - s His wife rolls her eyes. Then she nearly falls off her chair howling with laughter when the computer replies: PASSWORD REJECTED. NOT LONG ENOUGH
Re:But where do you draw the line? (Score:4, Funny)
Silly Passwords vs. Real Passwords (Score:1, Funny)
Same one all around. You figure it out, enjoy. And remember, you are male/female, young/old, rich/poor, etc.
REAL Passwords: Bochs cylinder. Script that passes the blowfish password, decodes, calls up an editor, does Norton wipefiles on close.
Re:Anonymous Coward (Score:1, Funny)
I can remember my
I'm squishing my eye up against the monitor now, could you please scan my retina? Thanks.
Well... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:USB keys (Score:2, Funny)
I beg to differ...
Most of the users in my environment simply write all their passwords on a piece of paper and stick them to their computer.
Problem solved!
Re:USB keys (Score:3, Funny)
Re:USB keys (Score:3, Funny)
I not only store my PGP and SSH keys on them, I also store my USB keys, that way I don't have to drag them around. Of course it collapses on itself and leaves a little black hole, but I just use it to dump cans and candy wrappers.
RAGE-mania (Score:3, Funny)
There was a story in the local paper here about a guy who woke up and fired his shotgun at a bunch of bass fishermen who zoomed by his camp in their speedboats. He was labeled the guy with "wake rage". I guess in a few months Pfizer will have some pill for this, accompanied by the "It's not your fault - it's a disease and it's treatable" drivel.
Excuse me, I think I may be getting Rage-Rage. Is there a pill for that?