Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Password Chaos

Maybe it's just me...maybe it is my granny ways...I'm not sure which, but I am really struggling with not only my now...what 4? 5? email accounts and countless other accounts (shutterfly, flicr, the bank...) but now with my various passwords. I thought I would keep it simple and sort of use a similar one for most accounts. No...that would have been too easy. SO some accounts ask you to have at least 6 or 8 letters in your password, others insist on a number, and then there are the ones that just out right judge the strength of your password right in front of you....that's really weak they say, or you're just a bit better than a weakling.

Now that I have spent the last 30 mins trying to hack into my own CBC account to leave a comment on the fact that Obama still has not obtained a puppy for his little girls, I gave up and tried to hack into blogger....this only took me about 5 minutes. Hence this blog post.

I've realized one thing out of all this chaos...and that is that if you use similar passwords, with multiple variations, with multiple email accounts....breaking into your own accounts can at times feel like picking the winning combinations to next weeks lottery.

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