Every year, I am required to change a full gamut of passwords.* December 1st is the deadline for my annual login.
Normally, not worth a mention.
I decided to turn an annoying exercise into something constructive: a memory aid.**
I zipped in a new password with part of my anniversary included.
And then I stopped to think.
I botched the date.***
I spent the next 10 minutes trying to come up with some sort of new password that I could remember and would fit the security criteria.****
The network stonewalled me.
On the bright side, my new password is now firmly ingrained in my memory....until next year!
*I'm sure all the government workers I know would laugh at that statement ("Yearly?!? Try every other Thursday!")
**It's the first thing to go! What were we talking about?
***If my wife is reading this: Remember, my intentions were good!
**** http://xkcd.com/936/ says it all. When I can't type in a 15 character sentence because some part of it somewhere resembles one of my many passwords from the past five years it's annoying.
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