Password Not Secure

[cutelilchick1]

I hate it when something tells me my chosen password "isn't secure enough" all the time. My LJ password is 21 letters long, and there's no reason for anyone to hack it in the first place, but any time I post an entry, it starts demanding that I go change my password right this second.
My school email account is even worse. I can deal with the first two requirements easily(being at least eight characters long and not containing my first or last name), but the other three are pretty annoying. It has to contain at least three of the following categories of characters: uppercase English characters, lowercase English characters, numbers, and symbols(like the octothorpe); it can't contain a common word, "such as would be found in a dictionary"(yes, that's what it says); and it has to be changed every ninety days. All this so I can be absolutely certain I'll get that email about a lost mp3 player or the upcoming St. Patrick's Day celebration.

Found in the dictionary? Haha.. so I can't use any word in the dictionary? That will be hard.... Hmmm.

[Sandmaster]

My student email is even worse... They force you to change your password every three months, for "security reasons". If you don't change it, or forget to, you get locked out of everything and have to re-apply for a password at the faculty..

They must have really high expectations of university students, if they think we'll leave passwords hanging around or anything.. (although there are quite a lot of people that honestly don't belong here..)

Pity they aren't as bright themselves, seeing as you can change your password back to the old one again as soon as you have changed it once

My work account is like that. Except ours actually remembers the last 10 previous passwords so you can't reuse them like your able to. It makes it really frustrating trying generate a new one that you can forget. Especially since it has to consist of a minimum of two each uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. And it has to be a minimum of 10 characters I believe. In addition if the password expires you can get a new one that's only valid for 3 days until you properly reset the password. Talk about a headache... Apparently network intrusions have gone down considerably though.

[Rachel]

My student email is even worse... They force you to change your password every three months, for "security reasons". If you don't change it, or forget to, you get locked out of everything and have to re-apply for a password at the faculty..

They must have really high expectations of university students, if they think we'll leave passwords hanging around or anything.. (although there are quite a lot of people that honestly don't belong here..)

Pity they aren't as bright themselves, seeing as you can change your password back to the old one again as soon as you have changed it once

My work account is like that. Except ours actually remembers the last 10 previous passwords so you can't reuse them like your able to. It makes it really frustrating trying generate a new one that you can forget. Especially since it has to consist of a minimum of two each uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and special characters. And it has to be a minimum of 10 characters I believe. In addition if the password expires you can get a new one that's only valid for 3 days until you properly reset the password. Talk about a headache... Apparently network intrusions have gone down considerably though.

Where i used to work it was a bit like that - although a bit pointless as everyone would leave the computers logged on and everyone would use everyone elses logons. Someone gave me the tip that it didnt flag up if you used the same password but changed the numbers - so you could have password0107 for jan then password0207 for feb etc etc