We’ve all been there.
I too love the Password game! Please save Paul! ~I truly care about him!~ Truly!
(Sorry, I sometimes like to post really bad comments…)
Bruh, it just made me google dork to find out where a random street view was. 10/10 would recommend
Have you been given the egg yet? Don’t forget to feed him!
I gave up at the ‘find a youtube video of an exact length’ step
my laziness limit had been reached
My Roman numerals should multiple to equal 35, but then the county I got starts with a C… how do you multiply by fractions in Roman numerals?!
You don’t need capital letters in the country name
I haven’t known that one yet, hilarious :)
Don’t you have to delete paul to win?
It was great until that step 20 where some ‘fire’ deleted everything I made. It’s one thing to make you think, it’s a completely different thing to just delete everything and make you start over. Fuck that noise.
Man, when I played, poor Paul got burnt to a crisp. I’m still having flashbacks from that shock.
I got stuck on rule 14 where I had to guess the country in Google maps.
Au2WonderfullyshellnIcepigsXXXV!85mayy4n6mfiend🌘
I guess it’s kind of secure. Does the password change daily with the current wordle word?
if you walk down the path like 20m there’s a sign that tells you where you are
I stopped playing when my whole password caught fire lmao
Thanks. I was only on my phone and didn’t feel like zooming in for that much.
“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”.
Should be: “your password cannot be one of your last 24 passwords”
Yeah, this is important. Make it a really big number too so that I have to change my password lots of times in a row in order to put it back to what it was. ;)
Especially for those places that want your password changed every two weeks.
If they want to play that game - the calendar date becomes part of the password. It’s never the same, but you can always work it out!
Or just append a letter that increments every time you change your password, and keep a note of what the current letter is.
Passworda
Passwordb
Passwordc
…When your z password expires, just wrap back around to a.
It follows the vein of some of the password rules and feedback reducing security itself. Like why disallow any characters or set a maximum password length in double digits? If you’re storing a hash of the password, the hash function can handle arbitrary length strings filled with arbitrary characters. They run on files, so even null characters need to work. If you do one hash on the client’s side and another one on the server, then all the extra computational power needed for a ridiculously long password will be done by the client’s computer.
And I bet at least one site has used the error message “that password is already in use by <account>” before someone else in the dev team said, “hang on, what?”.
It’s true, most of these rules are harmful, but also most are in common use and accepted, for some reason. I have heard of a password system that had that warning, perhaps even the account, but it was in a softwaregore screenshot context.
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.
Since 2017 at least; and IIRC years before that; that’s just the earliest NIST publication on the subject I could find with a trivial Web search.
https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html
Verifiers SHOULD NOT impose other composition rules (e.g., requiring mixtures of different character types or prohibiting consecutively repeated characters) for memorized secrets. 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.
“Memorized secrets” means classic passwords, i.e. a one-factor authentication through a shared secret presumed to be known to only the right person.
I wouldn’t say obsolete because that implies it’s not really used anymore. Most websites and apps still use validation not too dissimilar from the OP, even if it goes against the latest best practices.
Yeah, the most recent one for me was creating a password at lemmy.world
I wouldn’t say obsolete because that implies it’s not really used anymore.
I’m not sure where you heard someone use the word “obsolete” that way, but I assure you that there are thousands if not millions of examples of obsolete technologies in constant and everyday use.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obsolete
no longer in use or no longer useful
For today’s 10,000 who have never seen it, https://xkcd.com/936/ succinctly explains why the whole mixed character types thing isn’t favoured.
I’m still waiting on an XKCD that references #936 with the fact that we soon as we have reliable, functional quantum computing, all of the passwords from before that point in time will be completely and utterly broken. That the only way to make a password that a quantum computer would have a tough time breaking is if it was made by another quantum computer. Unless of course the comic has already been made and I just missed it, which is a complete possibility because this year for me has been utterly crap.
Some of them are broken by quantum computers, but not all of them. For example, SHA256. You can use Grover’s algorithm to take sqrt(n) steps to check n possible passwords, which on the one hand means it can be billions of times faster, but on the other hand, you just need to double the length of the password to get the same security vs quantum computers. Also, this is the first I’ve heard of a hash that uses a quantum computer. Do you have a source? Hashes need to be deterministic, and quantum computers aren’t, so that doesn’t seem like it would work very well.
Maybe you’re getting mixed up with using quantum encryption to get around quantum computers breaking common encryption algorithms?
People should be made aware of all the tools available to properly manage tons of passwords. Not even going too deep into “passkey” stuff or any modern shenanigans, but a password manager used to generate random passwords for each separate sites is such a simple step.
Yeah! And nowadays the industry is pushing towards password less authentication. Github just started rolling it out to beta users
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”
That just means you entered it wrong the first time.
It often means that one could have derived the correct password from the set of rules - but those rules are not shown when asking for the old password
Exactly this. I want to normalize showing the password requirements when you don’t immediately get the password - if you made me jump through hoops the first time, at least remind me what they were!
i have had this happen on some websites occasionally while using my password manager.
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.
Removed by mod
“Chessify” on Android worked for me (also has the advantage that you just take a picture, instead of setting up the position by hand). Unfortunately 1 minute later the game gave me a chicken that I had to keep fed with worm emojis, so I created a stockpile of worms for the chicken and it died of overfeeding. I rage quit the game on the spot.
Thank you, I’m thoroughly annoyed.
Me too.
Fuck. I gave it a try for real this time and hit a permanent game over condition.
spoiler
Apparently you can overfeed Paul
Darn, I wanted to see what came next. Some of those rules were hilarious. But I’m not doing that all again.
That was my limit too!
I got to the “wordle” one before giving up. jesus lol, nice meme
It was crone btw.
wow, spoilers /jk
The worst part is that if they know that password is already in use… then they aren’t storing their passwords appropriately.
You could store the passwords as hashes and just compare the hashed value.
yes, but then they are not salted, which is what they should be doing.
But are they peppered?
True, but for the same big O they can salt the password for each user and compare it to what they have stored. My big pet peeve (that I’ve actually seen) is when they say your password is too similar to an old one. I have no idea how that could be reasonably done if they’re storing your password correctly.
Good call.
Lol, at this point just generate a password for me to save in my bitwarden.
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Because it’s much more fun to come up with passphrases like Correct Battery Horse Staple.
It’s a lot easier to remember that than #@?Zk23!nPw
Tacking onto this, because I mix password types too, I don’t want all my passwords in the same (even pseudorandom) style.
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Yeah, I switched from LastPass (after one of their many data breaches) to 1Password. I don’t know any of my passwords anymore because they’re all just generated and saved automatically. And that’s a good thing.
Tons of websites reject pseudo randomly generated passwords, too
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That’s inherently blocking pseudo random password generators.
Max length doesn’t bother me if it’s at least 128 characters, but only allowing specific special characters is a sin.
As of last year, Wells Fargo’s passwords were even cause insensitive. Dunno if they’ve fixed it since then, but probably not
Because I want control of my passwords in my head not some software, it’s not like a string of random characters is any more secure than one that can actually be remembered
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Yes because I have an easily remembered system for a unique passphrase for any given site. Not trying to shit on password managers though, just providing a different perspective
Its been less frustrating since I moved to a password manager
Unfortunately a lot of jobs require passwords and they use outdated security processes, forcing people to have the old fashioned “must have uppercase, lowercase, number, and special character & you have to change it every 3 months for no reason” passwords instead of the stronger (and less annoying) alternatives.
i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn’t let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn’t on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had “too many failed attempts”
Sounds like it’s prime time for a SQL-injection
Those requirements drive me crazy, especially because they’re all against NIST recommendations. Someone thinks they make passwords more secure but they have the opposite effect.
At any rate, password managers still help in those cases. If nothing else, for providing a safe place to record what your password is for when you forget it because of the dumb requirements.
I always wonder if such choices come from incompetent IT, or if IT wants to do things better but is banging their heads against corporate owners who think “more hassle = more secure”.
It’s almost certainly that writing security standards for an organization takes time and needs approval from high up. And someone high up complaining that they only just revised them to include special characters.
Must be changed every month, can’t use a previous password, AND, for some fucking reason, can only contain 8 characters.
And if you forgot your password, you can call IT and they’ll just read it to you because they have them all saved somewhere.
That was a great place to work at.
that’s exactly why a password manager works. there’s a generator that you can configure to meet requirements
Still frustrating. I generally try to make my passwords all lowercase in case I need to type them (especially on a phone). But a lot of places don’t allow that.
No offense but I’m kinda happy they dont allow that. Its horrible entropy a better approach for manual entry is using a randomly generated passphrase (6+ words should be enough with a special character as a seperator if needed) or again using the autofill of a password manager, there are many available for mobile devices. I recommend checking out bitwarden for anyone new to password managers
If I’m typing on a computer keyboard, typing words is easier than random letters, but on a phone it doesn’t make much of a difference. What I end up doing is typing my passphrase into my password manager on the computer, and then typing the password on there into my phone.
I do have a password manager app for my phone, but then I have to type the whole passphrase into it so I don’t use it unless necessary.
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.
Holy shit you might have just explained why I have to reset my password every time for a local fast food joints own website
This was me on a bank’s site till I clued in that I need to shorten my password.
I can do you one worse.
My banking app password was not case sensitive for many, many years. They finally fixed it a few years back though!
This has happened to me so many times. Frustrating and stupid being belief. Are they hiring 10 year olds to write the html/script? Sheesh.
Had this problem with mint mobile a while ago haha
I think walmart.com was or is that way. Took me a while to figure that crap out.
I’ve seen this but with a final message of “Sorry, that password is already in use by user about2getOwned@gmail.com.”
- Login to their account
- Change their password to something else
- Set your password
But what if the password you want to set is already in use?
Refer to my above comment until that is no longer the case.
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
that password is already in use
lmao, “security” moment
Brute force user names instead of password. Big Brian moment
Large Brian Moment, for real
Looks like someone’s been playing the password game https://neal.fun/password-game/
That game made me want to punch.
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.
This already happened to me in a big service provider (electricity) website. It’s infuriating.
