Passwords gone mad

There are often rules for userids also.

I'm curious about the rules for the userids at that medical forum.

Could you please share the userid that goes along with the Mick884488 password? Just so that I can understand the rules, of course.

There are web sites that will generate passwords that will satisfy these rules.

Here's one:

If you run a password manager, those are really the safest, assuming someone can't crack your password manager.

Modern thinking in passwords is that longer is better, and it doesn't really matter if you have a mix of character sets.

A long string of unrelated English words is a fine password, and would be ideal to use to access a password manager.

It's funny, but I don't use any authentication at all on my iPhone.

Then again, I don't do any commerce on it. I make and take phone calls and texts.

Cindy Hamilton

Funny. There are credit card readers everywhere I go. Nothing to take phone payments.

Cindy Hamilton

After about the fourth rejection of a password as not being good enough mine tend to be long and obscene.

When I was getting gas at CostCo last night there was a description on the pump about 4 methods of payment, one of which was a phone. NFC is good enough for me. The card is in my wallet, the phone is around here someplace.

I do not do online banking. Never saw the need.

Need? No.

I find it very convenient. The closest I get to the bank is the drive-up ATM.

Banking, like voting, is a situation where I find no advantage in queuing up with a bunch of other people.

Cindy Hamilton

Guess it depends on how you do business. Most of my banking is on line. I get credit card and other bills in the mail. From there I go to my credit union and in a few clicks I have paid the bills for the month. I have about 10 bills to normally pay each month. Takes less than 10 minutes to pay them on line and if I had mailed them in, it would have cost me $ 5. That is $ 60 per year I save. Had I ran around to the places to pay some in person , it would have been another couple of dollars each month in gas.

I don't even give it a thought to transfer a few thousand dollars from the IRA to a bank when the RMD comes due or I want to buy or sell stocks. All done online. I can do most all of it in a very short time.

I do hate it when you have to use rules for the passwords instead of just making up your own. I was going to do something the other day and after about the 3rd attempt to generate a password, I just said to myself this place is not worth the effort and moved on.

There are many place like Yahoo mail and Facebook that need passwords, and I tend to use the same one for all of those that do not involve money. The ones that do not let me use that password usually get passed over unless it is something I really want.

I've put Everything I can on autopay. I still get hard copy, snail mail statements (shredded after appropriate retention period) but never worry about a late payment. Been doing this for at least 10 years and have never had an erroneous (no over/under/missed) autopayments.

I have 2 things on autopay. Direct TV and a cell phone for the wife. I got turned off the autopay about 10 years ago due to some insurance. I had the kind you pay ever month for and after 20 years it stops. The time period ran out and I was billed for a much higher bill as they automatically switched on me without my telling them to. Called and told to cancle it. They said I had to send them someting in writing. Took about a month to get rid of that insurance.

The only reason what I do have on autopay is they give a discount if on autopay.

I don't even text. It is just a phone.

I always open with an obscenity, preferably an obscure military one. Then throw in some special characters and some numbers. They always sail through.

I almost always buy gas with gift cards. Publix sells a $50 card for $40 when they run that promotion and I try to get a few. There are so many "skimmers" found on gas pumps around here I am not comfortable using a regular card and I like the 20% discount.

Same here. I like the people at my bank(s) and they are on my way to just about anywhere but I have 4 banks.

My bills are all on auto pay. All my income is deposited electronically too. If I died it might take years for anyone to notice. Since I never owe money, the IRS might not even be that concerned.