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Leesburg, VA
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 ·Verizon Online DSL
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Re: Stupid User Tricks: Password Selection - "WORD1" said by Mele20:The problem with long passwords, and especially all those numbers, is that you can't see what you are typing. Way too easy to transpose numbers. I'd probably type that a dozen times and never get it right and some sites only allow three attempts. I only use complex passwords for banking sites and didn't do it for them until recently. There is no reason to x out passwords on the screen if the user isn't somewhere that others look over his shoulder or take photos from a distance. I always have wondered why that is done. That should be something that a user turns on if they need it otherwise what you are typing should show up on the screen. I'm always mistyping a password, even one that is not complicated and that I have typed many times, and it irritates me that I can't tell what I am typing. Sounds like a PEBKAC issue. |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | What's "PBEKAC"? |
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ABPremium
join:2006-04-04
Leesburg, VA
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·Verizon Online DSL
| said by Mele20:What's "PBEKAC"? Is that what I said? I thought I said "PEBKAC".
Google is your friend (well, my friend anyway.) 
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEBKAC |
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Mele20Premium
join:2001-06-05
Hilo, HI
kudos:4 | I transposed the letters as quite a few folks do all the time..I don't do it often thank goodness. I do it with numbers a great deal though.
If you are into playing games instead of answering my question...obviously it is irrelevant what it is. If I had wanted to use Scroogle to figure it out, I would have done so instead of politely asking you what you meant when the correct thing would have been for you to state what you meant in the first place. I asked for a fix for the stupid xxxx that one sees when typing a password. You gave me an acronym instead of a fix. Telling folks here who ask for help to use Google ...gee, why do we have these forums then? Everyone should just use a search engine if they need help. 
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 Grail KnightQui audet adipisciturPremium
join:2003-05-31
Valhalla
kudos:6
 ·Time Warner Cable
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Re: Stupid User Tricks: Password Selection - "WORD1" Searching for an answer before asking a question is the norm as many times the question has already been asked and answered.
PEBKAC: »/nsearch?q=PEBKAC&cat=
Here is one tool that will reveal passwords which I found through a search engine. There are many others if you look for them. This one is freeware and no I have not used it as the asterisks are a security measure no matter where you are inputting the password. Just because a person is inside their home does not mean that someone is not peaking over your shoulder.
AsterWin
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Edit* Corrected last sentence. |
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