I feel stupid. Can someone explain this to me? Is it saying people have a hard time coming up with a new password?
The joke is that he set the password to the same thing he thought it was to begin with — the same password the site said was incorrect, it’s now saying was in fact his old password.
I forget where, but this has happened to me before. I thiiiink the logic was that it compares to your last 3 passwords, not just the most recent one. So if I had the password “hunter2”, then changed it to “swordfish”, then later forgot that and tried to log in with “hunter2”, this is what would happen.
I’ve also had similar but completely inexplicable experiences with my cell phone provider, who shall remain nameless. My best guess is that my special characters (still ASCII but not alphanumeric) broke their poor lil database. It wouldn’t accept anything until I set a strictly alphanumeric password.
Why is that? Couldn’t find anything on Google.
Ahh, so you all also shop at target online, eh?
I use bitwarden on my android phone and home computer. Vivaldi browser on both devices with bw integration. I also was able to portable-load Vivaldi on my work pc, so one day when I’m not too busy, I intend to regen my work passwords (everything but the domain logon is web-based) with bitwarden so I never have to worry about how many ones and exclamation points I appended to my passwords.
Now if I could only get them to replace Microsoft 365 OTPs with a smart card or RSA hardware token that’d be perfect. Especially when Teams and every other Microsoft app separately and individually decides for the nth time this week that they all need my credentials again because somebody sneezed near the work VPN server and caused the ntp to be off by a millisecond and invalidate my security certificate or… whatever the reason that happens.
I won’t say where I work but we have strict password requirements including that they have to be exactly 8 characters long.
Yeah our passwords aren’t very secure as we also have to change them every 90 days and if you miss the window by 3 days you have to call the IT desk to reset it which takes about 45 minutes to an hour. And in that time you basically can’t get anything done.
At home I use a password manager and all my passwords are randomly generated and whenever possible 2fa is enabled.
Not sure if you’re in the US. But if you are, you should leave this anonymously on the security team’s desks.
> Verifiers SHOULD NOT require memorized secrets to be changed arbitrarily (e.g., periodically). However, verifiers SHALL force a change if there is evidence of compromise of the authenticator. - NIST control SP 800-63B Section 5.1.1.2
Basically a fairly widespread standard of security. All kinda of complaince you can fall out of if you do business with anyone who cares about NIST controls.
Get as many people as you can to change their password on or around the same day. 93 days later either bombard IT with simultaneous requests or maybe stagger them to eat up their resources for days.
