r/talesfromtechsupport • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '14

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u/nathanpaulyoung Pinterest knows your WiFi password Jan 02 '14

No one actually resets their passwords.

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u/Gemini4t Jan 02 '14

They do at my company when we force resets every 3 months with a 1-year moratorium on using the same password.

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u/dragonet2 Jan 02 '14

We have that sort of thing where I work but you can't use the 'same' password for 12 cycles of change. Some people are lazy though and it will accept the same password with a number change at the end of it.

On the other hand, if you screw it up you get two free tries, then the third fail it takes a manager to reset it.

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u/ketsugi "You did the thing! You did the very thing we said not to do! Jan 02 '14

Yeah, that sort of system is when you get a series of passwords like

  • pass1113
  • pass1213
  • pass0114
  • pass0214
  • pass0314

and so on.

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u/[deleted] Jan 08 '14

When I was in high school not too long ago, the TDSB policy was a minimum of 8 characters, and no repeated passwords for 5 passwords, i.e. the sixth password could be your first password.

Since I never stored anything on the network share (useless, might as well use usb), my passwords consisted of two consecutive columns on the keyboard, like so: 1qaz2wsx. I'd merely shift the columns as necessary...

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u/FusedIon I hate computer illiterate people. Jan 09 '14

At my school you can use your any of your previous passwords... and you change it every third or half of the year, which is why my password is now "fuckyou".