Fucking password policy

[Full Metal Bolshevik]

More safe than my back account. Revleft is not that important that I should change my password every 150 fucking days.

[Armchair Partisan]

Forced password changes don't actually help much with password safety, since it has been shown IIRC that it leads to people being frustrated with all the nagging and reverting to simpler passwords. Besides, I just juggle two passwords anyways, which is not much of an improvement.

The best way to make passwords safe is to demand a high minimum length (https://xkcd.com/936/), about 12 characters, and make sure they aren't vulnerable to a dictionary attack by inserting a few characters of random gibberish. Anything else is unnecessary. A 18-character passphrase with 15 letters of easily remembered words and 3 random symbols and capitals is much better than switching around 9 completely random characters that you will probably have to randomize via "Forgot my password" after the 150-day cycle anyway (which is actually a bigger issue than it seems, since the last time I was forced to give in to the forum software's nag, "Forgot my password" did not even work and I had to keep retrying for like an hour before it randomly decided to do what it's supposed to do).

[Ele'ill]

you'd all love the time the forum was requesting new passwords on every other log in

[Quail]

Forced password changes don't actually help much with password safety, since it has been shown IIRC that it leads to people being frustrated with all the nagging and reverting to simpler passwords. Besides, I just juggle two passwords anyways, which is not much of an improvement.


I don't know if my head has the capacity to juggle more than a few passwords.

[Os Cangaceiros]

here's an easy solution: encrypt a text document on your computer that has your passwords written on it. That way you only need to remember one password

[RedAnarchist]

I just use names of people I know plus a specific set of numbers. That way, I can include the capital letters, the password is fairly lengthy and the name could be one of a very large number of names but of people I know of so I can remember the name clearly.