Mini-Rant: [Enter Password]
Passwords. Everywhere you look, fucking passwords.
I can see the logic in needing a secure login protocol for any website that holds your personal details but I am becoming increasingly pissed off with the amount of times I have to go through the “retrieve password” procedure on so many of these damn sites.
The biggest offenders are the sites that simply don’t allow you to set a password you have ANY chance of remembering. Yes, random collections of characters are definitely super safe! So fucking safe, not even the account holders can login!
Fair enough, the password won’t be guessed by criminals simply trolling these sites like the proverbial hooded teenagers trying the doors on locked cars … but the so-called “Strong” password is JUST as likely to be cracked by software as your first pet or your mother’s maiden name!
These sites try to make themselves seem locked up tighter than Fort Knox by irritating the shit out of people every time they try to login.
“Well, I guess if I can’t even login when I KNOW my password, what chance do the hackers have?”
If only that were how it worked!
It’s going to give me great pleasure to call up the customer service people for these websites in the future and be required to inform them that my new password is “CUNTFACE!” – all caps, all one word.
And if they do require a “password hint“, I shall ask the brainless Call Centre moron to make it their own name. At least I’ll know which tosser to ask for next time their shitty site locks me out.
MisterShouty 