Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Am I the only one?

Why does it all have to be so complicated?

Everything is password protected. This one requires 8 characters, that one can only have 6 and this one at least 7 but no more than 9, this one can have numbers and letters and this one can only have letters, then this one has only 4 letters or 4 numbers but not both, this one can have punctuation and this one can't, this one must have spaces and caps and it is cap sensitive. Now you have to change them all every 30 days or you get locked out.

I would love to start a movement that any company that requires specific numbers, letter or even numbers of characters on the passwords, gets "X'd" out of our lives. Let me decide what my password is if you are going to require them. We are slaves to machines. HAL I hear you....

I have five passwords to access my work computer if I want to see everything that is mine in the system. To access the Multiple Listing service I have to have a username which of course is only numbers, a PIN and a password but the best part is that password changes EVERYTIME I use it. I am not kidding, I have to carry around this sillly little fob and if I want to access MLS I have to punch this little thing and enter that password that is displayed on the screen. Of course I get the privledge of paying for that little piece of crap. Better yet, to access a house I want to show I have another device that I have to update by phone EVERYNIGHT, god forbid if I ever forget that thing at home in he cradle and need to show a house. Now after it is updated I need.........yes you guessed it, another password in that little device. Of course I have to have the garage code to get into the office parking garage 7.3.0.9 and the door code 7.3.0.9.9 [at least these two are not that difficult] to get into the building so I can use a key to get in the front door of the office and another key to get into my private office. Folks I have no gold in there, I am not sure what we are protecting. Of course to get my computer to the point that it will accept all the passwords [that have to be changed every thirty days] I have yet another passwords E

Each mortgage company, each credit card, each phone company, each utility and even to take a crap these days I need a password.

Am I the only one??

Let's all change our passwords to a nasty phrase [yes that one]