Password Rant
What’s happening recently with passwords? For some reason more services seem to be restricting both the characters and length of passwords. I find this out as my passwords have mixed case, digits and punctuation. It’s the latter that cases the most problems, but the fact I choose 10-character passwords is also problematic.
Since it’s just going into a database table, what’s the problem? Why restrict things?
And then there’s the stupid error messages like “passwords don’t match” when it’s actually too long.
And don’t get me started on the “enter the 2nd, 4th, 5th and 7th character” nonsense. The vast majority of people will have to write down their password to work those out, which is much less secure than just letting them type it in normally.
