We need a Password to get into darn near anything on the Internet (I probably could have left out the “darn near”). It is a Confusing Mess.
We all have our own systems of setting up our Passwords. Many sites we want to get into have their own Requirements for the Passwords they allow us to use. A problem arises when many of the many go out of their way to keep their Guidelines a Secret from us.
After creating our Password according to the Guidelines we know quite well (because they are our Guidelines) we are told our password is unacceptable because it did not meet their Guidelines (the ones they did not tell us about)...
Ø We should have made our password a minimum of 8 characters but not more than 16 characters.
Ø We should have included one or more lowercase characters.
Ø We should have included one or more uppercase characters.
Ø We should have included one or more digits (0-9).
Ø We should have included one or more of the following symbols: @ # $ % ^ & * - _ + = [ ] { } | \ : ' , ? / ` ~ " ( ) ; .
We are capable of doing this but we must be told we need do this before we don’t do this because we were not told we needed to do this.
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Ø Do our passwords need to be extra long? Not really.
Ø Do our passwords need to be complicated? Not really.
Ø Do our passwords need to have squiggly things in them? Not really.
Ø Is it permissible for us to use a password that that we can actually remember? You betcha it is!
Bill Burr is the guy who started all this Password Confusion. He has now come clean and he admitted He Was Wrong!
Read All About It!
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If there is a statue to Mr. Burr somewhere in the Good Ole USofA, it ought to be spray painted, torn down and jumped up and down on by a bunch of college students who used to go to class to learn something useful before they decided their calling in life was to spray paint, tear down and jump up and down on statues.
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
