View Single Post
Old 11-13-2010, 08:30 PM   #57
meromana
Zealot
meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.meromana can tame squirrels without the assistance of a chair or a whip.
 
meromana's Avatar
 
Posts: 129
Karma: 11430
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: NC, USA
Device: my laptop
Quote:
Originally Posted by MikeFromHC View Post
Which is why all they have to do is remember a simple personal question and apply a simple set of rules they make up.

If they can't do that then perhaps people who can should be hired.
I don't know...in my experience, those who excel at memorizing tedious lists of oddball characters aren't necessarily those who excel at critical, analytical thinking. Like me, for example. In my last job, there were at least 10 different systems requiring 10 different passwords (each system had different password rules), and they had to be changed every 90 days, NOT on the same schedule. Worse yet, if you typed the wrong password 3 times, you were locked out, usually for several hours, and required a manual unlock by some guy in IT.

Of course, unless I was on a tight deadline, I didn't mind that much--I got paid by the hour, even when locked out and unable to do my job. I would guess that password problems cost this company far more than what they saved from any potential security threat that their policies may have prevented.

--Maria
meromana is offline   Reply With Quote