I have been extremely irritated in past places requiring short passwords that are also constantly changing every few months. The annoyance is exactly why people just start using “august2025!!” type passwords.
Just let me have a monstrously long password and don’t make me change it without a good reason.
Meanwhile, my day job gives a sixteen-character arbitararily generated password every single day. I have no say in what it is.
So I use a quill and a parchment and I carefully note it down on the parchment, which I bought at a renaissance festival years ago, along with the date.
I have literal feet of these passwords, three to a row, in tiny print.
I have been extremely irritated in past places requiring short passwords that are also constantly changing every few months. The annoyance is exactly why people just start using “august2025!!” type passwords.
Just let me have a monstrously long password and don’t make me change it without a good reason.
Then “august2025!” When you need a new PW :)
The reason those passwords need to change often is because of dumb people who give their personal password to others.
At least then their accounts aren’t compromised and being used by the wrong people for more than 1-3 months.
So please, don’t blame the IT for the actions of dumb users.
Meanwhile, my day job gives a sixteen-character arbitararily generated password every single day. I have no say in what it is.
So I use a quill and a parchment and I carefully note it down on the parchment, which I bought at a renaissance festival years ago, along with the date.
I have literal feet of these passwords, three to a row, in tiny print.