Please select a password between 6 and 12 characters
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I know what you mean. Internal sites at my workplace do weird things too. Some use employee IDs as log-ins, some use email addresses and there's another that seems to use some randomly generated number as the log-in ID. The restrictions on the passwords all seem to be different too! My pet hate is the "secret question" thing. If they let you design your own question, fine. But when you can only select from a list comprising "What is your favourite colour?", "What is you favourite music artist?" and all similar, I have a problem. My "favourate" X Y Z change from time to time. Why can't they ask factual questions like "What is your mother's maiden name?" or "Which country were you born in?". Having said that, I still have a problem because my non-English answers can be spelled in a few different ways when put into alphabets... :doh:
Almost, but not quite, entirely unlike... me...
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Yes, the world is running short on bytes; we must shorten passwords to save the bytes for our children! OK -- so these messages always piss me off. I'm making a list that I'll post publicly to shame these organizations (including my bank) into changing their password policies. Please send me a list of any sites you encounter with a restrictive password policy!
So you are telling me that if your password was pen*s (kss filter, figure it out) then it would be too short?
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