Technology

I too love the Password game! Please save Paul! ~I truly care about him!~ ^Truly!^

(Sorry, I sometimes like to post really bad comments...)

“Sorry, that password is already in use” ruins it for me. That’s not a realistic message to receive.

Maybe “Your password cannot be one you’ve used previously”.

Fun fact: password controls like this have been obsolete since 2020. Standards that guide password management now focus on password length and external security features (like 2FA and robust password encryption for storage) rather than on individual characters in passwords.

For those wanting to play this as a game, there is this wonderfully fiendish website.

https://neal.fun/password-game/

Rule 13 Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.

Sorry, that password is already in use

BIG red flag. Abort. Abort.

Also I love when they only support certain special characters. So the psuedo random noise created by my password generator won't work until I curate out the unsupported characters.

My favorite, though, is:

types in password "Password incorrect" goes to reset password "please enter a new password" types in password "your new password cannot be the same"

My favorite is when you forget your password and try to reset it but it cries that you can't use passwords you already used

Mother fucker if I remembered what I used I wouldn't be doing this

The worst part is that if they know that password is already in use.... then they aren't storing their passwords appropriately.

The worst one is when it only supports up to like 16 characters but doesn't tell you so it will only use the first 16 characters and ignore the rest. The next time you need to enter it and get the 64 character password from your password manager it will just say it incorrect and you're left with no idea on why it's wrong.

Lol, at this point just generate a password for me to save in my bitwarden.

https://neal.fun/password-game/

Looks like someone's been playing the password game https://neal.fun/password-game/

This is one of the reasons why I am totally dependent on my password manager now.

I've seen this but with a final message of "Sorry, that password is already in use by user [email protected]."

A password prompt should include all criteria upfront so that you can setup your password manager to generate a fitting password.

Getting the criteria or even just partial after you entered one is fucking atrocious.

Password can't exceed 32 characters

Garbage

Sorry, you must have a special character. Oh... Not THAT special character, it has to be a special special character, that one isn't valid. Ah, no, that one's too long. It should be shorter. It needs to be between 11 and 11.5 characters.

Half the time I now just enter random nonsense until it lets me create an account. Then, when I want to access a website/app again, I just 'forget' my password and reset it to some other random nonsense.

that password is already in use

lmao, "security" moment

My new favorite is the minimum time between password changes. My last 2 jobs set it to 24 hours, so IT guy gives you the temp password and you can't change it for 24 hours. But wait, when you try to change it the error you get is "doesn't meet your organization's minimum complexity requirements" which does not help AT ALL and the IT guy thinks you're an idiot because you can't figure out the complexity requirements. What a great feature!

I lent my spouse's mother our apple ID while theirs was toasted. But of course I had to change it first, since OhFuckMeH@rd3rYouFucks was finally an acceptable password for Apple but not for in-laws.

And that's when they tell you what you did wrong. Sometimes they'll reject the password without telling you why, because of some rule they didn't list. For example, I set a password in a parking app (Flowbird) which had an unmentioned restriction against spaces and Swedish letters (dispite targeting the Swedish market). Also, it lets you set a fairly long password, but when you try to log in on their webpage they've set maxlength="32" on the password field. So if you have a longer password you have to edit the DOM and remove that attribute to log in.

We allow memes here?

In what world are passwords unique.

I hate that most places don't remind you what the rules of their passwords are if you've forgotten yours. Odds are I'd be able to correctly guess it if I knew.