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December 05, 2011
Quick, what’s this scene from?
Baravelli: You can't come in unless you give the password.
Professor Wagstaff: Well, what is the password?
Baravelli: Aw, no. You gotta tell me. Hey, I tell what I do. I give you three guesses. It's the name of a fish.
Professor Wagstaff: Is it "Mary?"
Baravelli: 'At's-a no fish!
Professor Wagstaff: She isn't? Well, she drinks like one! ...Let me see... Is it "Sturgeon"?
Baravelli: Aw, you-a craze. A "sturgeon," he's a doctor cuts you open when-a you sick. Now I give you one more chance.
Wagstaff: I got it! "Haddock."
Yes, of course, it’s Chico and Groucho in “Horse Feathers,” and you probably even remember the password.
Simpler password times.
Though they're always crucial in war.
What’s the password?
“Friend.”
Big mistake.
Now, of course, they need to be so impossible to crack or else horrible things will happen to you like hackers hacking into your sensitive info.
So it behooves us to come up with passwords that are impossible to detect.
A recent study found that the average person has over 35 passwords and uses 8 of them per day.
And out of those 35, be sure not to use any of these:
Leading the list of SlashDatas 25 worst passwords of the year:
Password.
That's right, how do you forget a password if your password is password?
Others to avoid are:
123456.
Qwerty, those top row of letters on your keyboard, is also a popular no no.
And then there is wordplay, like letmein, trustno1 and ilove, which the hackers all know and love.
Not advisable either to use your birthday, especially with an ATM card, so when you lose your wallet and they have your driver's license...bingo!
That’s why experts say use a variety of letters, numbers and symbols and change them every six months just when you’re starting to remember them.
I’m just fortunate all of you remember your password in here.
DEAR MR PETERMAN:
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DOH! You mean I'm not supposed to make my username my bank account number and the password the PIN? My day job is in a credit union and I have people on the phone all the time asking "Why does my password have to be 6 digits? Why does it have to have a number and a letter in it? Can't I just use my social security number?" *sigh* It hurts, sometimes the stupidity physically hurts.
I was so tired this evening I tried to put my password in the microwave to warm some tea....
On this day in 1933, Faithful Republicans finally got the 18th. Amendment Repealed ...
GOD BLESS 'EM !!!!!!!
I am taking the day OFF, in Homage and Celebration .......
Have a wonderful day, Ivan.
Yep, Tommy~ I've done that.
nachista~ you must have a fund of funnies to amuse us. I'm sure you could not do your job without a sense of humour.
I forget what I was going to say about passwords.
I hate it when when I'm with a cute new program and I try to put my password in and I'm told it's too short...6 digits indeed!
I have a book of passwords in print of course because "I'm the type of guy who likes to ride the middle one foot in digital and head in a piece of crisp white paper.
I'm not from Lake Woebegone, but I am above average -- slightly. Just checked my password logbook and counted 42 sites that need that key to unlock them. What irritates me is that some need "eight characters or more, but not to exceed 14, including at least two letters, at least one of which is capitalized, and at least three numbers." By the time I've figured that out, I forgot what I went to the site for in the first place. And it would probably take a good (or mediocre) hacker less time to decipher the password than it took me to create it.
Don't feel bad, paolos, we all have our shortcomings. And some of the less picky programs turn out to be the most faithful. *<;~)
Hah! Someone sent me this password joke recently. As we are all adults here, I think it's quite safe to share:-
A new employee joins the Company, and is required to have a password setup for his computer. The boss directed a secretary to setup the password for him.
The secretary asked the man for the password. The man, attempting to embarrass the secretary in order to show superiority, said, "Penis."
Blushing, the secretary inputted the password Penis, and re-typed it again. Then she hit enter.
The whole office resounded with the secretary's laugh when she read the computer screen...
"Password rejected. Reason: Too short"
Spring~ That is funny, but it isn't what youv'e got, it's how you use it.
It brings us back to the topic of ten days ago (or so) a password with 8 characters...Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (ta dum dum).
I have a password which( in combo with some numbers) I use for everything. The problem for me is that the first letter of the password is the same letter that is the first in my daughter's name, so even though I have totally simplified my whole password thing I invariably type HER name and of course password is rejected.
ChefDeb ~ My favorite vanity license plate with a maximum of eight characters is PLANAHEA.
Seeing the Chicago skyline made me think of Kelsey Grammer's "boss" role in BOSS about big city politics- security at any level is precarious at best. Off the grid is increasingly difficult but the best bet. Being daring & intrepid is a rare commodity where your biz is everybody's biz.
Swordfish.
ti rompo la faccia, tu sei pazzo
IVAN ~ I'LL DRINK TO THAT. IS IT 5 O'CLOCK SOMEWHERE?
Well Paolos, you have made me la donna pazzo trying to figure out your 9:52. and I can't!
ChefDeb ~ Horsefeathers!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IrCgCKrv8U
All of you have started my day with laughter, and when I read the essay I was prepared to grumble: When password nonsense began, then as it became inevitable, I feared we were becoming people-of-numbers-and-letters, no longer of brains and feelings. I could forsee a day when EVERYthing we do has a number attached -- and it has come to pass.
You'll point out how crime has made this necesary; how security is not what once it was. And you'll be right; it is my fault: My mind is not a well-oiled machine; it's affected by countless matters, thoughts, things that fly by, the book I last read, what was said on"All Things Considered" Thursday.... My only defense, in the matter of THE DREADED PASSWORD, is to do what CHEFDEB does: Have one password for everything.
It is all letters, so when a machine crows, "HA! You must add a number!" I add the same number at the end every time. Had I majored in science, math, philosophy, I'd be better able to handle passwords. But English majors' minds don't work that way -- or this one doesn't. In My Land of Passwords, less is more.
From the first passwords, I saw this thing coming: A giant ball, collecting as it rolled, headed straight towards our universe, earth...me.
TommyTypical, I envy you, who keep a neat notebook of passwords; ultimately you're better off than I. But something there is in me that fights pigeonholing myself. I'll wish I had, I'm sure, and call on you for help. But today I belong still to one word. (And envy you your travelling, even with its disadvantages -- I'm sure your FF miles entitle you to the absolute best.)
Oh -- regarding the list of commonly-used passwords: My computer man uses "password" as his, for everything. 'Til today, I thought it was inspired!
SPRING, your joke is screamingly funny -- as are the comments that follow....
SPRING, SPRING, SPRING ~ Speaking of rejection.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRgiw_YEo_U
PAOLOS I don't know if its even legal to laugh this hard in the morning (and you too SPRING).
GEORGIA...I love that we have the same password system. Occasionally when really pressed, I change "o"s to "0"s, but the word and numbers, never.
Paolos, unique liscense plates I have owned and had good fun with: in Virginia- UMGAWA; In Georgia- UMMGAWA (both from the Tarzan movies); in Georgia- (on my old Mercedes) HAZBENZ...none used as passwords BTW.
GeorgeHall ~ Being a road warrior myself ( I just
completed a 1600 mile, 30 hour trip from Atlanta to the northern tip of the
Chesapeake Bay and back), I have the opportunity to ponder over the many vanity plates
that are traveling the same road. The last one I puzzled over was a Georgia
plate CAGRL 07, I still don't understand why there would be at least six other
women wanting to sport those tags...It's a well known fact that GAGRLS are hands
down the loveliest of all. (Time to DKNTKCVR).
Following the advice of changing your passwords often could really get a PC person in a stew....who can remember the right ones for a month, then change to something totally different every 30 days as advised by the security gurus?
I just try to capitalize a different letter in the combo, and use the number to correspond to the number of syllables in the name of the site. I keep meaning to write them all down, but keep those Secret Questions as backup for the inevitable forgetting. Afterall, what hacker would know the name of your first pet, first teacher, or favorite food?? In this site, the food questions might get the most respondents!
the best hint was to use the first letter of the words to a favorite song....and then use them in reverse order...the algorhytms to figure numers only are many factors smaller ; 9 or 10 numbers,V. 27 letters,big & small...but still, the very programs that can unscramble the genetic codes of fruit flys can figure out any combination of clues, well, except for where I left my reading glasses....
DEAR MR PETERMAN:
more on the honor rollI can't help but wonder if this topic wasn't spurred on by my confused and confusing email to you, regarding my lost gmail account which consequently led to me losing my passwords which led to me forgetting my password to the Eye, all of them, I forgot them, I know.
Which in turn has left me naked to the world, stripped of my honors, my ribbons and other finery. Which I asked you to restore, since without my passwords, they seem to be gone for good. And my life expectancy, while long, might not be long enough to write another 3000 plus observations.
Really though, my ribbons and medals were becoming to me. Didn't you think so too?
All because I can't/couldn't/never will remember any single one of my passwords that I've used here at the Eye over the past several YEARS.
Please Mr. Peterman, make me whole again!
In more ways than one,
Sincerely,
H. Dumpty
aka
PARK4 SANS PASSWORD
Park4
OOOHHHH NOOOOO...
I don't have that excuse.
2092 things to say and only one worth remembering, LOL !!!
PARK4, I love it. !!!
So, I believe, will Our Host, who seems to have quite the sense of humor.
oh PARK4 whatever we can do to aid your re-instatement.....
Completely OffTopic Bulletin to my Southern Village Friends: I finally had grits!
Made the Cheese Grits on the Quaker box added a dollop of cholula sauce and had to quote my granddad who used to say "I waited all my life for this!" What a treat. It was Ivan's comparison to polenta (whichI love) that gave me the final push to actually remember to buy them when I was at the store. Password: what a treat!
PARK4~ I'm mystified. I forgot my password and somebody at Mr.P E-mailed me new one. My "medals" magically re-appeared. Hope you get sorted out soon.
I, too, forgot my password and wound up asking for a new one. First off, I was given one that required a pen and paper to write it down with, since I was necessitated to go to another screen and didn't have the time to fiddle around at that precise moment. By the time I got around to it, it had expired. Then the pen and paper again, this time Bingo, I get it with the instructions to immediately change my password. But, since I am not in the habit of looking in other people's rooms, drawers, or medicine cabinets, it never occurred to me that I needed to poke around on the home page in order to find the hidden corner where one can change one's password.
Frankly, my dears, I think Mr. P doesn't want us to forget our passwords, because he doesn't have a clue what they are. But, he could put up a better sign or give better instructions where the changing room is on the home page.
I did finally find it.
I have been so frustraged I've used "password" for a password, but it was to an inconsequential site that really didn't need a password anymore than half the businesses in America do not need another survey (for which I will comply on receipt of payment of $35).
Paolos~ That area has more vanity plates than any I have ever seen! The best was 8-letters O2BNA4RI (Oh! To be in a Ferrari). Then there was the bumper sticker on an old Valiantin WDC "My other car is a piece of $hit too".
Paolos~ That area has more vanity plates than any I have ever seen! The best was 8-letters O2BNA4RI (Oh! To be in a Ferrari). Then there was the bumper sticker on an old Valiantin WDC "My other car is a piece of $hit too".
Park, Hope your appeal does the trick. You deserve the well earned back.
A clue to help you remember is next time you sign in type you "name" and your password in the first box then your password in the second. The web master will refuse the first entry, so type just your "name" the second time. Then every time you go to enter the site and type that first letter there will be your "error" entry with you password on it.
VeraM~ may I add your word "frustraged" to my dictionary? Is it a regular word for you or just an excellent typo?
Password tips I am required to give out: *Do not include birth dates or anniversaries in the password *Do not use the same words or initials in the username and password *Do not use any part of your social security number as a user name or password *Do not use proper names or dictionary words in your passwords *Do not spell your username backwards as a password *Do not use sequential numbers in your password...
The list goes on and on. It has taken as long as an hour to explain and re-explain these thigns to people and try to help them understand internet safety. Then they do something dumb like write down their debit card/credit card PINs and all their passwords in their checkbook register and then let their purse get stolen with all the passwords in it.
The dumbest example was a woman here in a Utah a few months ago. She was loading her kids in the car after church and was juggling a diaper bag, scriptures, kids, and a purse. A scruffy passerby offered to hold her things while she got her kids in the car. While she was putting her baby in its car seat he took off running with her purse. He managed to empty her bank account and max out all her credit cards and apply for new credit in her name by the time he was caught only 2 days later.
VeraM ~ How is that $35 a survey working out for
you? Any takers yet? I'm right there with you on it, although $35 might be too
cheap for some of the surveys I've been asked to take. I think $35 a question
would be more appropriate. What really gripes me about it is that nobody but
noooobody ever pays a bit of attention to the survey results. Take the USPS for
instance. They have just announced that they will have to cut back SERVICES due
to lack of supplemental government funding. I would wager my $35, that if they
conducted a survey somewhere with the general public and asked one simple
question Should we A. Cut services to save money? or B. Cut overhead and admin
to save money?, I would wager my $35 that the survey results would not favor
cutting services. I don't know what any of this has to do with passwords, but
then most of y'all think of me as that other road in a yellow wood
anyway.
RON SANTO. GOD BLESS HIM.
I try to keep it simple and make all my passwords start with the same letter. That way, if I forget one, I've got another one standing right behind it my memory can pull up. They are similar enough to be rememberable, and dissimilar enough to not always be the same word.
He's a new Hall of Famer, I heard. "Good on him" as Ivan would say. Much deserved.
I had a couple superb passwords that worked for a good 6 months or so. The problem seems to come when I click the "remember me" option, which automatically signs my password and after YEARS of not having to give my password at FOR EXAMPLE, PETERMAN'S EYE, darned if I know what it is. Or was.
I love the sites (not this one) that asks you if you forgot both your password and the email you used to sign in, as in you're in deep chit now lady, and I blush tho no one can see me, and tick "yes" and then the website comes back all chipper-like and says helpfully that they have now sent my password to that email.
And for a few confused seconds, as my synapses misfired wildly, that even made sense to me.
oh help
for i am a bear of very little brain....
and passwords bother me.
PARK ~ HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ONE WHEN HE WAS ON THIS SIDE OF THE CLOUDS.
Agreed, paolos. Agree 100%.
The password for the Coconut Haddock at The Naked Fish in Waltham, MA is GOODA1. Grilled and in an orange rum cream sauce & I chose fried plantains as my side. Waiting on pineapple bread pudding. I do enjoy chocolate but lean toward the fruity flavors.
Georgia- sweet of you to say "organized" but frankly I am bridled chaos. I work hard at not falling off the grid. I could easily be a whirling dervish...
Surely, the guru who runs this site can "Reset to an earlier time" and locate park4's PW and other info......If hackers can do it, you'd think a Peterman PC operator could do that and tell park4 what her PW used to be.....?? I do hope so...after all she earned all those medals and they should be restored if possible. ....Too many different sites want passwords...
Not all need them....Why should every site want you to sign in? Sometimes I see one that just begs for a comment, and I end up signing up just for that day, and then promptly forget how I signed in!! I guess the signing in is connected to monetary gain somehow...more members, more $$, more members, more bragging rights.....Nothing is free it seems...!
The B&n is selling little password address books these days. Yet 1 is NOt suppose to write their passwords down... So I have no idea if these are to be actuallyused or not... It is all jsut too confusing these days to do anything... Stoney - don't worry the Bakery wasn't harmed in the Pulaski town fire this weekend ;-)
That funny sound? #10 clicking his heels.
rings90 ~
Thanks. I was worried while over-footballed and keeping a brain aneurism from leaking out an ear with a Q-tip.
A lot of people would kill to have our problems… no?
Stoney - Yes they would - but than again our Problems are really not for the faint of heart or those who don't have a sense of humor either. I'm with P$ I can NEVER remembe rmy passwords, It's probably a good thing that my writing looks like chicken Scratch so it soean't matter if I write em down, someone would have to be able to tell what my letters actually are.
All I know is I am sick of this world that now exists. . . a world crammed full of technology that drains the very life out of me. . . . I am sick of usernames and passwords that won't work. I am sick of technology that is forever in need of upgrading. I come from a world that no longer exists. In my world, one purhased an item. If and when it broke, it was repaired several times before it was disposed. Now, every six months, the new is now old and thrown away. Nothing is treasured. Letter writing has almost become extinct. Even photographs are no longer paper. They are electronic. Shoes wear out and cannot be repaired because the shoe repair shops are gone. Why throw out good shoes if they just need a new heel or sole? I hate this world we live in today. Things move so quickly. I am exhausted.
Please bring back Park's bling and words of wisdom.
Please bring back Park's bling and words of wisdom.
Please bring back Park's bling and words of wisdom.
Please bring back Park's bling and words of wisdom.
::::I'm making signs:::::
Park, you had a wonderful post on how to face the holidays when loved ones are no longer around to celebrate them with us. I always thought I could go back and read your post when I wanted to...it was brilliant AND comforting.
Oh how I wish I had copied and pasted it in a saved file.
Sigh,
Penn
Hi Penn, thanks, they weren't all drivel, were they? I never saved any of them, even the comments I thought were not so bad... That'll learn me, the hard way, again. I once tore up a manuscrippt that wasn't all that bad at all because I was angry at another person who'd tried to insert themselves into it's writing...all craziness, I should have should have saved a draft of it. Because if nothing else, it had a fine bibliography.................Oh apcray. thanks Penn for the good words about my words, and Stoney, it's not working.