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A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment
!!! PASSWORD TOO WEAK !!! - your password must contains upper and lowercase characters, digits and symbols except not a hyphen for some fucking reason,, and no characters you've ever used in past passwords and no digits that are in your postal code, data of birth, or shoe size. Zalgo text is acceptable.
If you don’t want to use a password manager it’s not that hard to create long passwords. Just create a nonsense sentence with a misspelling with a character between each word and add some obscure personal info that isn’t directly linked to you, like a phone number of an old childhood friend or pizza place you used to call often when you were young so it’s easy to remember but not info another person can find about you. Then add a special character.
Like:
Wideo1Pasta1Is1The1Grawy1555-22334!!!
What? No punctuation marks? Special characters like !@#$%^&*()_+?
I got a "we've had customers accounts breached, please update your password" email the other day.
They specifically called out you can't use # in your password, and it's been bugging me why that is. What part if their system let's in other special characters but # is off limits?
Now that I’m thinking about this it’s bugging me too. If they are passing it to shell scripts maybe it’s interpreted as a comment? Some databases like Oracle use # to separate schema prefix from schema user and table name in a query? But none of those would really make sense here 🤷
EDIT they are storing it in plain text, with other values using # as a delimiter? lol
And in six weeks... It's time to change your password! No repeats.
We upped our passwords to sixteen chars last fall. Also, it’s UPPER lower digit and special-char. And we only require changing every twelve months when it used to be much more.
It's not so bad once you develop a system.
And as a bonus, when a few of them leak, hackers will have a little puzzle to solve. Hackers love puzzles.
Here's what you do: Generate long random string, for example: P5edM5Ce0SGE0rOr9k&#T*wG@d$og^qyBTk2@%dmO@2akbm!b^5^p!bH8w7Ei7gPSIR^1Er&hab3ae@0odk3h76Ka48kYtXrsburM$7rf^vPRwXz1s5guO&$PZz3@w
Memorize it.
For each site just choose a number and select 16 characters starting at this number.
Remember which page uses what number. E.g. google = 32 -> &#T*wG@d$og^qyBTk2
Done. You don't have to remember any more passwords for the rest of your life.