In article , Martin Brown
wrote:
On 09/02/2016 23:11, Jonno wrote:
David Lang scribbled


I've used the same password for years, nobody has a hope in hell of
ever guessing it. I can remember it.

Recently some site insist on having numbers as well, so I've had to
add one.

Now the bloody things want an upper case letter as well!

How the 'kinell does that make anything more secure?

Surely it's my choice, not some bell end running a web site?

Apparently Tesco are expecting online shoppers to remember parts of
their passwords, like the 1st, 4th, 5th and 8th letters/digits.
Brilliant, the person who told me had to write out the password and
pick out the digits they required. So much for security.

That is actually a secure form of challenge and with practice you can
memorise a password to recall individual characters without writing it
down.

I count on my fingers since mine has 13 characters. I can remember the
first two or three and cetianly the last two, but the ones in between need
a bit more work.

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from KT24 in Surrey, England