(June 25, 2014 at 10:47 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can attest to this. I had 17 separate passwords for 17 different systems at one point - and I retired in 2005 - and all of those passwords had to be changed every 3 months and they had to be 12 letters long(at least) with various characters. The workforce was aging rapidly and no one could remember that shit so everyone wrote all their passwords down..... which was a definite no-no according to the computer security assholes...but the alternative would have been endlessly applying for replacements.
No one would believe how fucked up it all was. Which is why I smiled today when I heard that half of the IRS' computers were still running X-P. As far as I know the only smart thing that they did was avoiding VISTA. Even the IRS wouldn't fall for that!
You can't make this shit up.
No, you can't make it up - but let me tell you, working in the private sector (and I have worked in the public sector, both in the military and as a civilian), it's about as fucked up. I have logins on at least a couple dozen systems, with similar password requirements. We're straying far off topic now, but the grass ain't always greener on the other side.
Single sign-on? Ain't nobody got time for that. I've been pushing for single-sign-on for nearly 15 years - but it's not a revenue generator, so no one thinks it's important.
Avoiding Vista was likely lucky happenstance.
