Saturday, January 14, 2012

Password Frustration

Dear websites,

You piss me off sometimes with these password requirements of yours.  If I want to create a password that is short and stupid and easy to figure out, that's my prerogative.  I promise I won't come whining to you if my account gets hacked because it'll be my own fault.  But seriously, every time I visit one of you bastards, there's a different password requirement.  This one must be at least 8 characters, that one has to have at least one capital letter, that one has to have at least one of the following symbols (%, +, #, $, !, @ but NOT an underscore symbol, which is the only one I actually use in passwords), another has to have at least one number, one letter, and one symbol, and hardly any of them can contain your first name.  I could continue.  I get it, and I appreciate your concern for my internet safety.  But you know what isn't safe?  The fact that I have a Microsoft Word document with a list of all of my fucking passwords so I can remember them.  It would be a lot easier if I could have just two or three passwords to memorize (maybe one undecipherable password for bank/financial information and university web access, one password for social networks & this dumb blog, and another one for shopping online or something).  But NO.  I have a password for each grad school I'm applying to, ebay, Paypal, Amazon, yahoo, both banks that I have an account with, facebook, FAFSA, job-hunting websites, my gradebook, Hulu (which is a waste of money, by the way), and the list goes on.   It's so frustrating.  And don't even get me started on the articles I read online that I want to comment on but I have to first "Create an Account.  It's Fast and Easy!" for.  Hell no.

Perhaps I should make all of my future passwords some form of "fuck you."  Some ideas:

fuck_you
f*ckyou
Fuck-y0u

Sincerely,

An adult who should be able to pick any password that strikes her fancy.

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