I've tagged this post as "humor" because in the past some of the more dour members of this forum have failed to recognize my previous and admittedly feeble attempts at being funny. I've also posted this in Schweb's Lounge as another hint that it's not to be taken too seriously.
1Password keeps nagging me about the fact that they have detected over 900 passwords and websites that need my attention:
I find this task to be tedious, boring and incredibly maddening. How did the IT world let us get into this mess in the first place?
I only have sufficient patience to work on this for about an hour at a time and no more than once a week. This morning I spent an hour and only managed to clear about ten problems. If I continue to do ten per week (not likely) it will take me nearly two years to finish.
The problems that crop up are wondrously varied. In some cases the 1Password entry is outdated and when I attempt to change the password the website informs me that I've entered the wrong "old" password. Sometimes I can find the correct old password in my Keychain. I try to be diligent in keeping 1Password up to date when I use a Safari suggested password, but clearly I have not been diligent enough. In come cases I have to go through the tedious and failure-prone "lost password" procedure.
Sometimes the website presents one of those confusing captcha puzzles. These baffle me. Is the pole which supports a traffic signal part of the signal? Is that scrap of white at the corner of the square part of the pedestrian crossing or just a photographic artifact? I usually require multiple attempts to solve the captcha puzzle. (I've never been much good at puzzles.)
In other cases the Safari generated password is insufficiently complex. For example, my web hosting company rejected the following:
I feel comfortable posting it here because I didn't use it and hope that Safari will not generate this same password for someone else. In this case I ended up using 1Password's password generator to create a password that is 22 characters long. It had to be that big for the website to accept it.
In some cases the subject website is long gone so I can safely just delete the 1Password entry. (Remember Northwest Airlines?)
I've written this mainly to vent my frustration. I feel better now.
1Password keeps nagging me about the fact that they have detected over 900 passwords and websites that need my attention:
I find this task to be tedious, boring and incredibly maddening. How did the IT world let us get into this mess in the first place?
I only have sufficient patience to work on this for about an hour at a time and no more than once a week. This morning I spent an hour and only managed to clear about ten problems. If I continue to do ten per week (not likely) it will take me nearly two years to finish.
The problems that crop up are wondrously varied. In some cases the 1Password entry is outdated and when I attempt to change the password the website informs me that I've entered the wrong "old" password. Sometimes I can find the correct old password in my Keychain. I try to be diligent in keeping 1Password up to date when I use a Safari suggested password, but clearly I have not been diligent enough. In come cases I have to go through the tedious and failure-prone "lost password" procedure.
Sometimes the website presents one of those confusing captcha puzzles. These baffle me. Is the pole which supports a traffic signal part of the signal? Is that scrap of white at the corner of the square part of the pedestrian crossing or just a photographic artifact? I usually require multiple attempts to solve the captcha puzzle. (I've never been much good at puzzles.)
In other cases the Safari generated password is insufficiently complex. For example, my web hosting company rejected the following:
byrrEj-fyrvah-docfy7
I feel comfortable posting it here because I didn't use it and hope that Safari will not generate this same password for someone else. In this case I ended up using 1Password's password generator to create a password that is 22 characters long. It had to be that big for the website to accept it.
In some cases the subject website is long gone so I can safely just delete the 1Password entry. (Remember Northwest Airlines?)
I've written this mainly to vent my frustration. I feel better now.