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For the past 16 years my phone has has a 4 digit pass to get access to phone messages. These aren't top secret messages, just typical office stuff - 'call me when you get back' etc.
So, end of December we get a memo saying that all phone passes now have to be 8 digits. 8 bloody digits!!!!! utterly annoying and pointless. I just doubled mine up to the same number twice. 2 months on and I still put the wrong number in every time, after 16 years you are kind of hard wired to 4 digits.
But it gets worse ...... I went to retrieve a message today, only to be told that 2 months is up so I have to change my number!?!?!? Every two months we have to come up with a new 8 digit number. The message has the audacity to say 'make it a memorable number'. OK, so I went for the easy option: 11111111. Nope, that got refused. The system is now telling me that it has to be a RANDOM number! So basically, every 2 months I have to come up with a random 8 digit number that is 'memorable'. At this point I did what any normal person would do - made a random number up and stuck it on my phone with tape!
I HATE this sort of utter bullsh*t.
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Corporate IT have never quite grasped that the most secure password is simply very long one that you never change, and never write down, because you remember it.
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Pretty much every time I come back from a holiday I have to ring IT to re-set mine. It always seem to need renewing around the time I go off, meaning I've only entered it a few times before going.
Though my absolute record was resetting my password, locking my computer to go to the toilet, coming back and completely drawing a blank.
43021023
00482716
12302948
02931234
09012345
90909012
12345609
03820482
12345678
12345678
12345678
12345678
By gosh, you're right!
Our phone pins will accept things like 1212 and 1313 so I cycle through those. It lets me start again with 1212 when I get to 1919.
Use your existing password and append it with _01$ Then just increase the digit each time, most machine parsing sees that as valid "text".
Try keeping track of two 8 digit PINs (admittedly they never change unless I make a total balls up) depending on how I'm connecting to the intranet, and then 4 different passwords for different systems, that have to be renewed every 60-90days.
And I'm officially not allowed to write them down anywhere, as that would be a breach of company policy. However, I do have some seemingly random letters and numbers marked inside a notepad, but by the time anybody deciphered the code, they'd of used up the 3 attempts and locked the accounts out.
An easy system to stick to with this would be to go:
12345671
12345672
12345673
12345674
12345675
12345676
12345677
12345678
After that just start again. If it doesn't allow it, go backwards.
After one heated discussion with the IT bods I printed off an A3 page with them all listed in big font and stick it above my desk. If anyone coming in the office wants to log in to see my collection of exam questions they are welcome - I suspect it's not worthy of a major hack.
At the last place we had to change our password approximately once a month. Sometimes it was 2 weeks, other it was 6 weeks.........
We were supposed to change completely each time. Never happened, it was same word, with the number on the end bumped up by one.
One lad in the office had Parts386 as his (it had started at Parts 01).
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