+798 You'll never understand why websites require your password to have 8 numbers, 5 punctuation marks, 2 Greek letters and an elvish verb, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

If I want my password to be "password", chances are I don't give a crap whether or not my account ever gets hacked into.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

That, or you don't know how to make a secure password. Remember that not everyone knows computers.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I now want to have Elvish verbs in all my passwords.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think it's because there are youthful people on the internet (meaning children). They don't know that "cats" isn't a safe password, and they need to be taught that "9CaTS135" is a safer, securer password. The quickest way is to put limitations on the password.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

And God forbid someone's Club Penguin account getting hacked!

by Anonymous 12 years ago

True, but if they never learn then they could use this password for a banking account or something of equal value.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

one of the first passwords i made was "fishy". not one of my best passwords....

by Anonymous 12 years ago

@Shannon: Like Meh said, if you don't learn these things for useless things (such as Neopets or Club Penguin) that have the same concept for larger things (such as your bank account or personal e-mail), then you'll have weak passwords for a long time until you learn the lesson the hard way. Would you rather tell your kid that the stove will give them a second-degree burn, or would you rather they touch it themselves?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Hey, if those little bastards are dumb enough to touch a stove, let em.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

They're dumb enough because somebody didn't teach them right.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I kid! I kid! hehe

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What is this "kid" you speak of I am offended how dare you

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Where is that punctuation you were taught in kindergarten?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

(I was also joking when I said that) I don't really need to have perfect punctuation though, considering you can understand what I'm saying regardless.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Except I can't. I had to read it four times before understanding it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You gotta be exaggerating...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Nope.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Cripes, you might wanna tone down on the grammar Nazism, then. I suggest learning how to read poor grammar and spelling errors. Regardless of how stupid it is, it's nifty for jokes and trying to comprehend some teenagers when you need to.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I know, I know. I just hate it. Drives me crazy.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Best get used to it. People aren't gonna change.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

:'(

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Usually their password will just change to cats1234

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The problem I had with my old password was that it was 25 letters long, meaning it would be too long for many websites.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

A good password doesn't need numbers/caps/etc; if the password is just long it's harder (takes longer) to crack.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This reminds me of http://xkcd.com/936/

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Love that one! If only the people who create password requirements had seen it too.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You beat me to it... It's worth noting that I follow this method all the time :P

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Because fuck alzheimer

by Anonymous 12 years ago

This reminds me of a joke where a blonde sets her password as PeterLoisChrisMegStewieBrianSpringfield because it had to be at least 6 characters long with at least one capital

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Ismypasswordsecure.net

by Anonymous 12 years ago

apparently "penislover69" would take 15 thousand years to crack

by Anonymous 12 years ago

http://ctrlv.in/116982

by Anonymous 12 years ago

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa would take two trillion years, but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa would take 63 trillion years. I don't think this is legit.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Simple solution: Put all of your passwords in 1337. Nobody will have any fucking idea what you meant.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Applying that theory, not my password, but I'd make my username !!καshish'123456789!! I'm not quite sure what would count as an Elvish verb though.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Kashish sounds elvish enough to me

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Actually I prefer the term Indian

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Good to have you back buddy

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's good to be back man, it's good to be back.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

oh i dunno, all my passwords have been pretty easy to remember... I_W4η7_t0_giv3_bir7h_t0_b4bψ_c4ts Mψ_τ4b6y_c4t_h4s_a_b0n3r_and _1t_turns_m3_0n I_c4n_ f1t_ 5_ c4ts_1n_my_ρ4nt5_4nd_ur_j3ll1n <3_m4k3_fluffψ_c4t5_n0t_ω4r_<3 elvish verbs being bir, tur, ur, and luf

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What the fuck is an Elvish verb?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The password is monkeyslut.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

One of my first passwords was spelled wrong so it ended up being secure anyway, because who would guess "cittycat"

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Most of my passwords aren't even real words.

by Anonymous 12 years ago