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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 3:32 pm
(July 21, 2012 at 3:27 pm)Tiberius Wrote: I'm starting to feel like I should have just faked a database breach. Nobody ever complains when Yahoo! or LinkedIn forces people to change their passwords after they were all stolen... 
Because the people that use those sites know that they have no power in the matter. Even if every person complained.
Also this site is full of ravenous debaters
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 3:32 pm
At my school we had to change our passwords every 2 weeks.. Now that was a pain in the ass.
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 3:36 pm
(July 21, 2012 at 3:32 pm)Insanity x Wrote: At my school we had to change our passwords every 2 weeks.. Now that was a pain in the ass.
Don't bring up any ideas!!!
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 4:16 pm
Bottom line is that your shitty password puts everyone else at risk. If someone can log in to your account under your name, they can access Area 69. So, in other words, someone who has never interacted on the site and who may not even be of age can look at nude photos.
Quit bitching and change the password. Tiberius is being a good guy and trying to keep your information safe as well as the rest of ours. Going for his throat over it is douchbaggetry at its finest.
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 4:21 pm
My main argument over Area 69 access is that people post their photos there under the (valid) assumption that only Area 69 members can see them. If someone does manage to get into an account with access to Area 69, those images can be downloaded and spread around. People have reputations in real life to uphold; nobody wants their naked photos published for everyone to see, especially if they only intended them for a select group of friends.
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 5:09 pm
(This post was last modified: July 21, 2012 at 5:15 pm by ElDinero.)
Wholly unnecessary. I will literally never remember this password if I ever need to log back in.
And, um, I don't know if anybody mentioned this, but, it's a fucking forum? ie Not a banking website or something that actually matters. I keep no intellectual property here, nothing that I would hate to be in the public domain, no sensitive data that people couldn't find just as easily on my Facebook page. What is it we're trying to stop people accessing here? If people are that bothered about getting access to the two private messages I have that they want to hack me, have at it.
Really over the top to need upper case, lower case, a number AND a special character.
As for the 'We told you two days ago we'd do this' argument, is anyone actually seriously suggesting that everyone does or should come into the announcements forum every time they log on? Don't be absurd.
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RE: Changing Our Password Policy
July 21, 2012 at 5:21 pm
Again, this isn't about individuals, this is about the entire community. Other people do have information here that they would rather not have shared with the entire world. This is about them, not about you.
I've told you numerous times how to create a strong and memorable password; I even wrote an article about it (an article which incidentally is now linked to from the popular "Lazarus" browser extension website). Even if you ignore that, you should be using a password manager of some kind. There are too many sites out there that we require passwords for these days.
