For both my employer and place of study, both organisations require that account passwords be changed every 90 days. I alternate between a couple of passwords with differing numbers and words that contain profanity.
I was wondering if anyone in this community uses profanity in their passwords, works for a company that forbids the use of profanity in passwords and is it grounds for termination if your password is found to contain profanity?
Do You Use Profanity in Your Passwords?
Gdsamp on 22/05/2018 - 16:08
Poll Options
- 1Yes, I use profanity in passwords and my employer has policy against it.
- 0No, I do not use profanity in passwords and my employer has policy against it.
- 1Yes, I use profanity in passwords and my employer has policy against it.
- 0No, I do not use profanity in passwords and my employer has policy against it.
- 7Yes, I use profanity in passwords and I do not know if my employer has policy against it.
- 47No, I do not use profanity in passwords and I do not know if my employer has policy against it.
Comments
I made the answer to one of my secret questions 'vagslayer'
I am a different person now just for the record :P
dickslayer?
HAHA no not quite - just not such a d bag nowadays :P
Similar happened to me. Mine wasn't so vulgar but was still awkward.
Hahaha, the CBA questions. I did the same thing of having informal questions and answers. I thought it would only be asked on screen to myself but they read it out to you over the phone. They've stopped doing custom questions now for new people setting up.
I wish these boring-ass polls would (profanity) off
Shouldn't the person who finds out ur password be terminated first??
If plaintext passwords were good enough for Jesus, then they're good enough for the rest of us.
Salting? Lot's wife, you mean?
Any government login of mine has swear words embedded. How I was feeling at the time I finally managed to make an account.
I would hope that passwords stored are encrypted and not viewable. Shouldn't be detectable unless keystroke loggers are installed.
F#cK_N0
Ah-ha! empties bank account
I do, but only when I get frustrated about having to change my password or recover it.
Generally passwords aren't read by anyone after you set it, I doubt you could get fired from having swear words in your password.
not telling
It depends. Do you consider Jiminy Jillickers to be profanity?
I tried to use (nameofadministrativeorganisation)sucks since we have to change passwords every 3 months but I wasn’t allowed to use nameofadministrativeorganisation…
it needs to be a setting in lastpass to make swear words into secure passwords ;)
I have never heard of an employer having a policy against swearing in passwords specifically. Your employer doesn't actually know your password so having a policy against that makes no sense
In a world with proper security that would be correct (because it'd be hashed), but in this world that's a dangerous assumption.
BTW I know that my employer doesn't have a policy against it, but you didn't give me an option to vote so I didn't vote
my master password is 32 characters long, and contains 1 made up word, and 1 swear word.
and now I'm going to change it 🤣
Nice try, Russian hacker man.
I don't use profanities for work situations but I got so annoyed with one of the sites I sign into I do. Not a serious one, but enough to make it memorable.
Passphrases FTW. Easier to remember, more options for an easy change, better security.
YES, pass phrases is what I use and recommend
I fixed a laptop at someones house once and needed to log in to check something. The person who used the laptop left if with their parents and when her dad rang her to request her password she was embarrassed because she used a rude password. Whoops.
Answering the main question, no I don't use passwords with profanity. I did however use the same word in a password for several years for work because they kept making us change it every few months so I went with randomword1, randomword2… got to 0 then started randomword1 again. Eventually I changed my random word to a different word and started my count again.
ours are 20 characters long so plenty of room for profanity
No - I learned not to mess around with these kinds of things when I was younger. When I was 18 and opening an account with CBA, I made the answer to one of my secret questions 'vagslayer' and every time I called up and needed to verify my identity (before I changed it), it was really embarrassing! Haha. As a result, I no longer have any fun with any of that stuff…passwords, secret questions etc.
I am a different person now just for the record :P