for my own edification... use of language? I was hoping to see some valuable response to his post, yet all I see is shaming... for what exactly, please & thank you? If you can't help, how about just wait quietly to see if someone else can? Very puzzled and concerned about this treatment / policy / moderator(s), I am.
Off-topic post split and moved.
Calling another member of this forum something highly offensive, even through a pun, is verboten.
I'm struggling to find where you flagged those post(s).
The post has been removed. If you want details, ask the original poster.
Childish name calling
Brought popcorn for the show. Nothing to see. That's good. I more enjoy learning from reading the exchange of information and ideas.
But I am reminded of an office event I encountered with adult name calling... The IT office had the great idea to insist everyone change passwords four times a year... non-recycling, non-repeating, 16 alpha-nu minimum... and NOT from IT's "Top 200 mostly used passwords" document which we received with asterisks replacing characters that seemed to obscure "adult" words. I had a few questions for IT, my boss and my boss' boss. First; was it legal to skim the passwords to compile the list (or whatever they were using passwords for)? Second, and most important, how were we to know what words not to re-use if they were all censored? The answer to the first question was, "all data on the company system is owned by the company, so you should have nothing to hide." Fair enough. The answer to the second question was the same "full list of passwords to never reuse," but un-censored. You could hear screams and laughs coming from offices on every floor. I couldn't walk down a hallway without employees mischievously grinning or laughing as we passed. And, I got a, highly coveted, one-on-one with my boss who soon wished that meeting didn't happen. I had the "must be 16 chars or more" revoked by showing IT their flaw. You see, when faced with that ridiculous requirement, when faced with 35 more accounts with passwords for just being an employee, humans take the path of least resistance. I made a bet there will be only a hadful of character combinations used by everyone, which are:
- 1qaz!QAZ1qaz!QAZ - "1 column," unshifted, shifted, repeatd
- 2wsx@WSX2wsx@WSX - 2 column
- ibid
- ibid
- ibid
- ibid
- 7ujm&UJM7ujm&UJM - 7 column
- 1qaz!QAZ2wsx@WSX - combination of 1-column and 2-column (because 8, 9, 0 do not have four valid characters)
- ibid
In a week, IT revoked the implementation of the new password requirements, and for the rest of my time, I used the passwords from the list of asterisk-ed passwords, because, if everyone followed the rules, "no one" would be using those passwords.
I enjoy a good name-calling session. I learn new things that entertain me. I am a simple man.
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If it comes up again, just point IT to the folks who actually know what they're doing.
Or, buy a bunch of lava lamps for the office.
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