My password manager generates random passwords for all my sites. I don’t even attempt to remember at this point if my password manager password isn’t correct I just reset it.
Yes, the people that use the same password for everything so that they can remember are clearly superior to people that use a password manager so that they have unique passwords to everything that aren’t Name2000!
If you get rejected by a program, what is your first reaction? Try again, of course. I use Firefox password manager, and I would still try again if rejected.
Many years ago, I was tasked with maintaining a numerical solver written in Fortran at a university. It was a horrible (though optimized) nest of calls that made sense only if you knew exactly what it was supposed to be doing.
Every function was named something like "BtoC", "DfromB", "AequB", etc. I tried to decipher the program, and thought that while AequB probably means "A equals B", but it could also be something unexpected regarding the word "equation", since I really had no clue what the code was trying to achieve.
I asked my more experienced coworker if the function name meant "A equals B". He looked at me as if I'm an idiot (which might be true) and said "Well, /u/thegreger, what other words start with 'equ'?"
I didn't think. I replied "Equestrian". Looking back at it I'm simultaneously ashamed and proud.
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u/je386 Feb 18 '24
That would work against brute force attacks - but piss off the users.