… nipple. just kidding. i do love that movie though. the cable guy is one of the most under-rated movies in my book as far as quotability is concerned. red knight going down. down, down, down.
but i digress…
so, this past week, i had to log into our timesheet system to plug in the standard forty to be approved. unfortunately, my password had timed out and it needed to be changed. i had been working my way through movie characters, but they put new restrictions on the system.
- a minimum of 8 characters, a maximum of 10.
- cannot begin with a number
- cannot have two numbers together
- cannot have the same character together
- cannot be on of the previous 32 passwords you have already used
- cannot have any special characters
seriously? why don’t they just make me solve a game a soduko everytime i log in?! i would have a better chance at that then remembering what my last 32 passwords were. hell, i cannot even remember what clothes i wore yesterday.
so, after the five minutes and three tries that it took me to come up with a new password, i got to thinking. just how many freaking passwords i have to remember on a regular basis.
i remember back in the day, all you needed was your social security number and your MAC pin. for those of you that have never dwelled north of the mason-dixon, MAC is a money access center. which i think sounds a hell of a lot cooler than ATM. and you only had to learn your social security number once you got to college. before college? your address and phone number. and nobody knows phone numbers anymore because once you store them in your cell, you forget.
so here is the skinny, between my home computer and my work computer and all my online “pursuits” i would say that i have no less than 30 different passwords to remember. that is my seven different email addresses, my two myspace pages, facebook, bank accounts, suicide girls, three fantasy football teams, et cetera. and that doesn’t even count the stuff like the newspaper online that i just have to log in for. i have forgot that password several times and since you need a different password everytime you re-register, i know get junk mail to all my email addresses.
i know a lot of people do their kids names and years of birth, dogs names, home address, and such. i think i read that a lot of people use a lot of semi-x-rated passwords as well. and i can honestly say that with my creative swearing, i have had the occasional fucknuckle or jack@ss on my passwords. simply because i just so pissed off having to come up with new stuff all the time.
we do all these different passwords to protect our online identities, but yet have to still deal with spammers and hackers kicking the shit out of us with hard on pills and get rich quick schemes. what is the point? i have no point. i am just sick of trying to come up with freaking passwords.