I’ll at least be well prepared to sit through useless mandatory trainings
You’d think so, but they’re SO much more boring than that. I’ve now taken the “how to not write your password on a sticky note” training yearly since 2002.
I tell coworkers “They don’t make us take ladder training because they don’t think we can climb a ladder, they make us take ladder training so if we fall off a ladder, a lawyer can ask if we were following the ladder training.”
Don’t write your password down. Don’t use a password safe. Your password can’t have any words in it, it must be 16 characters with half of them non alphanumeric. And stop forgetting your passwords
Don’t forget the “stop forgetting your passwords” is accompanies by “password must be changed every 90 days” and “passwords cannot be similar to previously used passwords.”
I made myself a password generator where you input how long the password needs to be, + other requirements (length, number, special characters (there’s an input box for which ones are allowed) then it subtracts the number / special character from the total required length, chooses a random combo of 3-7 letter words that will make exactly the required length, then adds back in a random number and special character and capitalizes one of the words. Probably not as safe as a completely random password but waaay easier to remember. Would probably be way better even from someone who knows how to actually code because I know juuust enough to vibe code something small like this for personal use the only programming language I actually know is turtle so I understand the basic logic but not like. Syntax or anything.
You’d think so, but they’re SO much more boring than that. I’ve now taken the “how to not write your password on a sticky note” training yearly since 2002.
I tell coworkers “They don’t make us take ladder training because they don’t think we can climb a ladder, they make us take ladder training so if we fall off a ladder, a lawyer can ask if we were following the ladder training.”
Don’t write your password down. Don’t use a password safe. Your password can’t have any words in it, it must be 16 characters with half of them non alphanumeric. And stop forgetting your passwords
Don’t forget the “stop forgetting your passwords” is accompanies by “password must be changed every 90 days” and “passwords cannot be similar to previously used passwords.”
I made myself a password generator where you input how long the password needs to be, + other requirements (length, number, special characters (there’s an input box for which ones are allowed) then it subtracts the number / special character from the total required length, chooses a random combo of 3-7 letter words that will make exactly the required length, then adds back in a random number and special character and capitalizes one of the words. Probably not as safe as a completely random password but waaay easier to remember. Would probably be way better even from someone who knows how to actually code because I know juuust enough to vibe code something small like this for personal use the only programming language I actually know is turtle so I understand the basic logic but not like. Syntax or anything.
That advice was actually relevant in 2002. Now it’s a more secure method.