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[stormdog]

I'm finally signing up for the online bill-pay options on a few of my monthly bills. The experience is reminding me just how annoying the password standards people put on their websites are. I understand they're trying to protect idiots who'll sign up for online banking with an account that has tens of thousands of dollars in it and use their dog's name backwords as a password because 'no one will ever guess that!' But it really bugs me that I am limited in what I use as a password because other people can't be bothered to protect themselves. Once, a few years ago, when I was concerned about my youngest brother finding things on my compuer that I didn't think he probably ought to see, I created a password that I encrypted my art of a more prurient nature into zipped archives with. It's a completely randomly selected string of alphanumerics that I jotted down in a stream of consciousness and then memorized. But it's only six characters long, so many sites where I try to use it as a password tell me that 'it's too short' or it's 'not strong enough', so I end up using the same longer password that wooisme and I use on everything else, which contains a dictionary word and a numeric. Yea, that's more secure. Perhaps it ought to be a little longer than six characters (maybe I'll have to memorize another one), but it must be more secure than something like (purely for example) 'parakeet42'.

*grumbles*