Comments on: Bad UI: Passwords http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/ The journal of Paul M. Watson Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:58:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta1 hourly 1 By: Neil Wilson http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-8843 Neil Wilson Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:11:52 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/#comment-8843 I had this the other day on the British Gas website. Frankly I'm not that bothered about that account. If somebody wants to login and pay my gas bill I'm quite happy for them to do so.<br><br>And why do we persist with pass*words*? Why can't we have arbitrary length passphrases - with spaces in. I had this the other day on the British Gas website. Frankly I’m not that bothered about that account. If somebody wants to login and pay my gas bill I’m quite happy for them to do so.

And why do we persist with pass*words*? Why can’t we have arbitrary length passphrases - with spaces in.

]]> By: Neil Wilson http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-2972 Neil Wilson Fri, 31 Aug 2007 11:11:52 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/#comment-2972 I had this the other day on the British Gas website. Frankly I'm not that bothered about that account. If somebody wants to login and pay my gas bill I'm quite happy for them to do so. And why do we persist with pass*words*? Why can't we have arbitrary length passphrases - with spaces in. I had this the other day on the British Gas website. Frankly I’m not that bothered about that account. If somebody wants to login and pay my gas bill I’m quite happy for them to do so.

And why do we persist with pass*words*? Why can’t we have arbitrary length passphrases - with spaces in.

]]> By: Steve Crane http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-8842 Steve Crane Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:48:19 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/#comment-8842 My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this. My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this.

]]> By: Steve Crane http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/comment-page-1/#comment-2971 Steve Crane Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:48:19 +0000 http://paulmwatson.com/journal/2007/08/16/bad-ui-passwords/#comment-2971 My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this. My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this.

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