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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Never have this problem anymore with a password keeper. All new passwords are unique.

What REALLY pisses me off is when:

  • register for account
  • cannot register, account already exists
  • password reset
  • account not found
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I absolutely do. It's not that the password was wrong. It's that they wanted to invalidate all existing passwords and make you change it.

The easiest way to do that is for them to force everyone through the "forgot password" workflow. Zero or minimal code changes. They don't want to make a new, but very similar , "we had a security breach and are requiring you to change your password" workflow. They just don't care that they're blaming you for their problem.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have a password manager and had this happen with a password I saved, so I'm 100% certain it wasn't me making a typo but crappy software instead. Yes it was Meta, it's always Meta when shit like this happens.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I've had it happen with:

  • company payroll site
  • health provider portal
  • utility company

Each time I get on the phone with the company for them to manually fix the issue.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We require our users use a password that is in between 8 and 14 characters, contains more than 2, but not exceeding 4 special characters, and at least 3 uppercase letters, 3 numbers with 0 repeating digits.

Generator: ".....fuck you?"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And while requiring special characters, they only allow some special characters. So you just turn off special characters in the generator and then add an exclamation mark at the end

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

i just want to use ☭ and so few websites let you

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago

Aaah. I made it so far but I was defeated by chess!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

This is more of a work computer issue than an personal computer one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Basicly every terrible website/service that "irreversibly deletes" an account