Password Protection – Work Fails & Job LOLs – Monday Through Friday.

I must admit, I am totally guilty of this one! I’m all for security, but constant changing of passwords is one I pretty much disagree with. Who is it going to keep out, other than the poor bloke who has forgotten his latest password for the four different systems he uses, eg. ME?

If correct procedures are followed, any former employees would have had their user logins disabled at the time of their leaving the company, so that would just leave current employees to worry about. For current users, it would obviously be easier to remember the one (set) of passwords than having to update to a new password whenever the programs feel it is necessary, wouldn’t it?

For myself, I find it difficult to keep track of all of the different passwords for different systems and sites I use, so I inevitably end up recording them on paper somewhere, saving them in the web browser I use (Firefox allows you to password protect your saved passwords which is handy. Just have to remember the password to the password file then. ), and worst of all, on a sticky note stuck to my monitor. *shakes head in shame*

Very much one of those ‘do as I say, and not as I do’ situations.

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