Memory-Lane Monday: The cruelest password
Credit to Author: Sharky| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 03:00:00 -0800
After a network manager unexpectedly tightens up the rules for passwords and forces the expiration of all user passwords on the main application system, calls flood into the help desk, reports a pilot fish on the scene. They’re having trouble because of the new complexity rules.
One of the calls:
User: I can’t seem to change my password.
Help desk tech: Your new password needs to contain letters, numbers and punctuation. Do not use any words such as you’d find in a dictionary.
User: OK. (Pause.) No, it still won’t let me change it.
Tech: What is the password you are trying to use?
User: April.
Tech: “April” is a word.
User: No, it’s not; it’s a month!
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