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[wispfox]

*stares* Oh, right. I forgot the stupid thing that lets me pay for my classes doesn't let you use the last _24_ passwords.

Because there's no possible way anyone is not writing down their passwords if they cannot use the last 24...

Sheesh. So secure, that.

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[metahacker.livejournal.com]

My (thankfully past) school's system would check this behavior, complaining you were changing your password too often. Too often! Also, it kept *all* of your passwords for X amount of time (I think X was a few days) and you couldn't reuse any of the ones in that time. I ended up encoding a timestamp into the password, and writing down the algorithm somewhere.

Passwords suck.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Wow. That's... charming.

Amusingly, when I called the helpdesk to figure out why it was letting me login but not do anything (because I must have _weird_ error modes!), he was suggesting such things as the date in my password. My problem is that I _REALLY_ don't like writing down my password. And I will not remember dates.

I did eventually explain that I understand how passwords work, and that giving me suggestions was not actually helping anything. :) (dunno, my mini-rant about it being horrifically insecure might have given the impression that I'm not clueless, but whatever; he probably got into a 'password changing needed' mode and got stuck)