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Wow Bo and Hope the brilliant computer hackers figure out that PASSWORD was
the Password to the computer in the clinic. Hope comments that so many people
use PASSWORD for their passwords. Does anyone out there use this on their
home computers? Man, give me a break. Other times when people break into computers
they figure out the password in seconds. Come on let’s get real, there would be
safeguards so the average Joe (or Hope and Bo) off their streets could not
circumvent this. Only in Salem I guess……
Do you ever notice in the movies when somebody hacks into a computer, they usually try one password that doesn’t work, then a second one that still doesn’t work, then usually on the third try, bingo! they got the right one! I always laugh at this.
I work in IT and to be honest with you, you would be AMAZED at what you run into when it comes to passwords. Sticky notes right on the monitor with passwords, maybe in a drawer if you are lucky, they give the password out to their assistant (oh and that same password gets to their online paychecks), keeping the password simple, like "password". It is why as IT people we have to put safeguards in like forcing a certain length password, it contains numbers, letters, and symbols. If you are high up with an assistant, you can’t have ePay. You may not do these things, but there is a LARGE majority of people that do. You guys posts on boards, so most likely you use your computer more than then the average Joe does. People who do not use a computer very often do these types of things. I worked help desk one day to help with a launch of a new application that I was doing. One day was enough for me to realize how computer dumb people are. I had one person ask me if the 123 in the password I gave them was in caps or lowercase
You seriously can not make this crap up, that si our motto in our group.A hospital I worked at went to a system that our passwords to the same program gave us access to different screens or functions based on our position and location in the facility. We were required to change our password every few months and it did get difficult to remember what your new password was. My boss at the time would change from 1111 to 2222 to 3333 and so on. It was easy for her to remember but also easy for anyone who had her password in the past to know what her new one would be.
we had to change too. I used the colors on the color wheel clockwise from the top. That lasted me a couple of years. Then the Great Lakes, west to east…another year.
If you want a really good password, start on a number (not on the number pad) and go down the keyboard and back up again, however many characters you want to use. That way you get alpha and numeric mixed together, i.e., 4rfvbgt5.
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