Passswords?

[ScottE]

Our office installed a new security system that requires a password that includes capital and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. At first I was worried about coming up with something I could remember, but that was easily solved.

Canon#1

After a few weeks the system required that I change my password again. That was easy.

Nikon#2

Now I have to change my password again. What am I going to do?

[Balliolman]

... Sure is a tough decision ... ;-)

[SoaringUSAEagle]

Canon#01

[dewmuw]

All of my passwords are ******** - try that. :)

[NickSimcheck]

I would use either *******, or *****, or possilby ***** *** or even ****!

[PacAce]

Use the Canon DSLR model names and when you run out of those, there are the Powershot models, or, if you'd rather not use PS model names, there are a whole bunch of lenses to choose from. :mrgreen:

[In2Photos]

Use the Canon DSLR model names and when you run out of those, there are the Powershot models, or, if you'd rather not use PS model names, there are a whole bunch of lenses to choose from. :mrgreen:

yup, like EF1200mmf/5.6LUSM

[peterdoomen]

Or nicknames of glass material? Enough to change every month.

P.

[Longwatcher]

Don't forget Sigma and Tamron.

And thier lens names can get even longer then Canon's (especially Sigma)

You can also use famous photographers and the year they were born or died

such as:
Ansel'02

That should give you a whole bunch to go for.

[snibbetsj]

Our office has the same requirements, and has had for a number of years. I use XXXXX#YY where XXXXX stays the same, YY started out as 01 and is consecutively numbered, I'm now at 37.

[Scottes]

Password are tough. Very tough. I definitely do not use real words as part of the password, nor do I do the old "substitute" game like I for 1, and 0 for o.

I once thought I had a great password - laMap#202!
Some password-cracking program was able to crack it, 1 of 30+ passwords it cracked in a weekend run. (Frickin' Windows passwording though. Don't get me started.)

If you really care about your passwords pick a pronouncable "word" (not a real word) and mix case, symbols, and numbers and make it long. Like %DarLea1=foA622

That should hold the crack programs for a while.

But not forever.

[smashie]

Passwords are very tricky, to get round the sequential numbering you could try something like Can0ne0s350d. Substituting letters with numbers also lessens to the chance of a dictionary attack working. LC4 took a long time to break this one.

You may get some more ideas here http://www.cquest.utoronto.ca/infodocs/cquest/PasswordSelection.html

[Inspired Photography]

eh... you are all paranoid...

Password01 is as safe as houses! :P

Rob

[cjsa]

when i had somehting at work that needed a changing pasword, i started with my first cats name followed by 1, and moved on thru them, now i've gone thru sassy1 to jilly7 and back thru with 1sassy thru 7jilly, and started in with the grandchild. next i will just add # (sassy#1) (but i have to write this down, it changes so often)

[JenzZx2]

Working for the military has got me passworded out. Same deal with numbers, letters and symbols. The letters can't resemble words, you have to change passwords at least every 3 months, and your new password can't be a variation of the old password. If it's even close its rejected. Of course every e-mail, program and system that you use has to have one of these. I hate password changing day. Good luck.

[markubig]

Don't forget Sigma and Tamron. LOL!!!

S-P-A-F-1-7-3-5-m-m-f-/-2-.-8-4-D-I-L-D-A-S-P-H-E-R-I-C-A-L-(-I-F-)

"Sorry . . . Username/Password combination is incorrect . . . please type again"

AAARRRRRGGGGHHHHH!!!!

:p:p:p:p:p

[Zepher]

This would be a hard one to crack, but should be easy for you to remember.
C1A2N3O4N5D6IG7I8T9A0L

[PetersCreek]

I keep aquarium fish and my old password convention was to use a latin genus name, plus two or three numbers, followed by the species name. Ex: Amphiron123ocellaris.

Nowadays, my passwords are based on the criteria we use at work, when possible. No shorter than a set minimum length, at least one capital letter, at least two numbers not at the beginning or end, and at least one special character. Not all systems accept special characters though...but that seems to be slowly changing.

Between work and home, I've got so many that I have to keep them in my PocketPC...using 128-bit encrypted password minder software, naturally.

[joeseph]

It never ceases to amaze me that the companies keep getting stranger & stranger with the requirements for passwords, forcing users to adopt the written-on-a-post-it-note method. I have been in banks where users logins are on post-it notes stuck on the monitor in full view of the customers! Going for harder passwords is self defeating security in my book.

[tommykjensen]

It never ceases to amaze me that the companies keep getting stranger & stranger with the requirements for passwords, forcing users to adopt the written-on-a-post-it-note method. I have been in banks where users logins are on post-it notes stuck on the monitor in full view of the customers! Going for harder passwords is self defeating security in my book.

A company I worked for had some really restrictive rules.

One (well actually 2) of them were designed specifically to prevent users from using the same passwords across mainframe platform and windows platfrom. On mainframe password could not be longer than 7 characters, on windows it should minimum be 8 characters. There were other restrictions but I am not going into details on them as the actual details also is part of the security. As a result the helpdesk get loads of reset password requests.

[lostdoggy]

Sadly enough just running password extrating S/W will make all for not!!!

[lancea]

Oddly, the toughest password policy I've had to use was waaaaaaay back, when I was on a VMS system. We got a list of 6 gibberish passwords and could keep generating them until we found one we identified with. You simply couldn't enter your own. It actually wasn't too bad. There was some intelligence in the gibberish that included vowels so you could always get something you could say, more or less. Everywhere I've been since has proclaimed a strong-password policy but in practice lots of people just used the old January$01,January$02 trick. I guess Canon01,Canon02 would be a bit more secure.

[StevenRaith]

It never ceases to amaze me that the companies keep getting stranger & stranger with the requirements for passwords, forcing users to adopt the written-on-a-post-it-note method. I have been in banks where users logins are on post-it notes stuck on the monitor in full view of the customers! Going for harder passwords is self defeating security in my book.

Pff, even better than that - forget the post it note method, with 90% of non-computer users, you can just watch them slowly enter their alphanumeric symbol'd up password at
one
letter
at
a
time
Oops-I-mistyped-it-better-start-again
one
letter
at
a
time
<return>

I do this at work for a laugh.

"Can you just log in for me so I can get your settings and stuff off the PC for when I change it, ta."

*slow tapping*

Ten minutes later
"Right, I'll just log in as you..."*tappety tap<return>*

:shock:

"How did you work out my password????"
"Ninja skillz, love..."

Sometimes I love my job....

[Airedale1]

Our office installed a new security system that requires a password that includes capital and lower case letters, numbers and symbols. At first I was worried about coming up with something I could remember, but that was easily solved.

Canon#1

After a few weeks the system required that I change my password again. That was easy.

Nikon#2

Now I have to change my password again. What am I going to do?

Quantray#10