RANT: Fucking Stupid Uni Student Service Systems...

[MKSheppard]

It's Shep - the same Shep who fantasised about brutally murdering an old bloke for daring to pay for what he wanted to buy in the shop where Shep was working.

Why hello, Edam, nice to see you're still the pompous dickwad you've
always been.

Go work for nine months in a retail shop without losing your sanity and
then get back to me on your fantasies, assfucker.

[Sokar]

These wonderful asshats only give you three tries to get your password
right and then lock you out from the system. Fucking total asshats.

And to make it worse, you have to use a six digit number for your
password, instead of easy to remember word passwords......

Thats rather Nazi'ish , where do you go to school Shep ?
Here at Purdue we get to make our own password, and if all else fails our keyboards all have ID card swipes:-)

[The Yosemite Bear]

You think retail is bad, You really need to try civil service.

Idiot: "Hello, I'm in Jail, and have a stab wound, I don't want it to give me Hep."

Me: "So, why don't you tell a ****-ing gaurd rather then tie up an Emergency Line?"

[phongn]

Go work for nine months in a retail shop without losing your sanity and
then get back to me on your fantasies, assfucker.

Been there, done that, still sane/

[tharkûn]

Shep a few hints from someone who had to deal with the worst password system known to man (7 passwords, each of the last three "rolled" with each failure so if you screwed up you had to remember the next password in your sequence, and the worst part was you had to fill out a bloody form for every failure documenting the date, time, location of attempted login, and reason for failure).

1. For numbers (or even strong letter passwords) go with spatial passwords. Use the number pad that comes standard on most keyboards these days I.e.:
951753
852456
4563258
620147
745985365125 (a friend of mine got in trouble for using this one but it is piss easy to remember)

In each of these you need only recall the starting point and the pattern.

2. Do NOT pick similar passwords if you have numerous passwords to remember, you will invariably end up using the wrong password for a given system. With a harsh lockout system you may not recall which is the right password.

3. Do NOT use your birthdate, nor the birthdate of family members, also avoid your phone number and any ID number (student, military, governmental). Those are all the prime candidates for somebody malicious to try.

4. For strong letter based passwords do not use correctly spelled words, or better still use words that are not phonetically pronouncible. I.e. rool as opposed to rule is a better password. Even better is something like r1_1le.

5. Spatial based passwords are normally more secure as there are a near infinite combintation that is simple to remember, but hard to guess. I.e.
de32wsaq!
zse$rfvgy7
bnjkio0_

6. The best passwords combine multiple types of smaller passwords and are still easy to remember ie. something like:
g1_1n$roolo9ijn

7. If it is something you don't give a damn about it being hacked (i.e. a web account) then have one BS password for everything that is worthless. If it is hacked ... then it is hacked.

If you can't pick your password, then you are just screwed. If they did something stupid (like set it to your student number) go bitch about that being common knowledge and insecure and ask for something more secure.

[Malecoda]

3 tries and 6 letters is not an unreasonable password policy.

It was six numbers.......

try to remember six fucking numbers.....

You uh, do know your phone number, don't you? SSN? Other phone numbers? Geezuz, use a phone number, for fuck's sake. This is not a complaint worthy of a rant, you psycho. When the univ sits on your finaid paperwork for half a semester, or makes you jump through hoops for a paycheck that they lost, or doesn't repair a missing grade before you get your diploma, then you might have something.

[Malecoda]

It's Shep - the same Shep who fantasised about brutally murdering an old bloke for daring to pay for what he wanted to buy in the shop where Shep was working.

Why hello, Edam, nice to see you're still the pompous dickwad you've
always been.

Go work for nine months in a retail shop without losing your sanity and
then get back to me on your fantasies, assfucker.

Christ, poor widdle Shep. You are aware, aren't you, that many people somehow manage to retain their minds EVEN THOUGH THEY WORK IN SHOPS? OMG! I mean, there are actually people out there who don't crack from the strain of actually working! What's wrong with you? You make working in a gas station sound like The Deer Hunter. You're puny and weak.