So I was just going through yet another useless registration form
(cisco's, just so I can download their VPN client) and something
occurred to me, looking at their random password rules (Your password
must contain both upper and lowercase alphanumeric characters (a-z, A-
Z,1,2,3...), and must be least eight characters long.).
I don't think I have ever seen a form that shows the rules you needed
to follow when you chose the password when you have to enter it later
on.
so, for example, I come back to this form, and I probably will not
know that it was forcing me to use an uppercase letter, which I almost
never do in passwords. If I knew that I would probably guess it, but
not knowing that, there is no way I will.
Same thing happened the other day on a retirement site. The password
there was all numbers, but I didn't know that until I clicked "forgot
password" and had to choose a new one. if they let me know the rules
it would help me remember.
Anyway, just thought it was odd that I don't remember ever seeing the
rules posted on the other end, and I don't think I've ever seen this
remarked on in a book, which is not to say it hasn't been.
Michael
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