On Dec 28, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Nicholas Kell wrote:

> 
> If you work for a company that admins over a hundred websites, you may be 
> inclined to copy-paste a few passwords.
> 
> I don't know about you, but when we use passwords that are over 16 characters 
> long and I don't want to get an incorrect pass, because it was a grave 
> character versus a single apostrophe, or a capital i versus a lowercase L or 
> a zero versus an O, etc.. There is no way I am retyping passwords for 
> every-time I need to log in, or FTP into a site. 
> 
> We use apps to store all our passes, so yeah I copy and paste. But on the 
> same note I am conscious of copying a space at the end of the password / 
> username.
> 
> Sorry, you are not going to (re)educate the public on what you think is 
> password best practices. But I do however, think that it is the users 
> problem, not the developers. Learn how to copy-paste.

You have a good point. Both with (1) you won't stop it, and (1) learn how to 
copy-paste.

Regards,

-Josh
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