Haha - I believe the letters F and U would work in this instance; besides, there's no reason for them to have my real name in the first place, and I know that none of the letters in my password exist in my user name (I lucked out there). I finally found a system that tends to allow me to have one of two user names (even if trickykitty is taken, trickykty usually isn't) and a system of related passwords that I can usually figure out based on what rules the web site has. But this rule just bugged the crap out of me. Some people actually have long-ass names that include just about every letter under the sun, and the web site is essentially punishing them simply for existing. Not everyone in the world knows that they can edit their "real" name rather than trying to come up with an appropriate password.
I'm still waiting for a rule that says: You cannot use any word that you can find in any dictionary anywhere, including two-letter words (see the Scrabble rules book for acceptable two-letter words) and foreign words, nor can you use numbers in place of vowels in order to get around this rule as bots can now be programmed to figure those out as well, and you cannot use coding devices to create your password, because if you can do it, someone else can hack it, and we are not about to let ANYONE under ANY circumstances break into your list of saved websites because THAT COULD END THE WORLD. This includes you hacking in. We've learned that the best protection is a good offense. If you can't come up with a satisfactory password (even though a word is no longer valid anywhere as a password), then there is no way that some hacker monster out there could possibly get into your account.
Please teach the people of these big companies that a friendly UI does not include driving the end user MAD!
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Date: 2008-09-09 02:39 pm (UTC)I'm still waiting for a rule that says: You cannot use any word that you can find in any dictionary anywhere, including two-letter words (see the Scrabble rules book for acceptable two-letter words) and foreign words, nor can you use numbers in place of vowels in order to get around this rule as bots can now be programmed to figure those out as well, and you cannot use coding devices to create your password, because if you can do it, someone else can hack it, and we are not about to let ANYONE under ANY circumstances break into your list of saved websites because THAT COULD END THE WORLD. This includes you hacking in. We've learned that the best protection is a good offense. If you can't come up with a satisfactory password (even though a word is no longer valid anywhere as a password), then there is no way that some hacker monster out there could possibly get into your account.
Please teach the people of these big companies that a friendly UI does not include driving the end user MAD!