-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2014-08-12 at 14:28 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
Just like some mailing list managers end a monthly reminder of your password. In clear text. By email.
All the home routers I have used need a password - which you enter via plain http.
Oh, and they don't tell you they've truncated it it. Just like those sites that map all your lower case to upper case, and don't tell you.
Or won't let you use punctuation characters in the set [';()<>]
I hit one that did accept them, then broke down. I think I saw some database error on my browser. I had to contact their support, and they were baffled. I commented in passing that I was using those chars for my password - and they said something like "Doh! You can not use those". They had /forgotten/ to check for valid chars on the registration form. So they reset my account.
See http://xkcd.com/327/ as to why.
LOL! :-)
The real problem is not your password, its the sites out there.
I know some people that use the exact same 4 digit "password" on all the places, from credit card pin to google. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlPqviMACgkQtTMYHG2NR9Xt6gCgjUcvKqAo8VaGlzpt2irOVTdD nl8AmwanjG4Sp4rX3MwkDbNmS0yfadTt =nzhI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org