The Russians are Seriously Starting to Piss Me Off

[musclemom]

The purpose of passwords is for security. However, when one is expected to remember over 50, half of which are revolving, with different requirements for letters/capitals/numbers/symbols/length, what's the purpose? They're just going in a file of passwords or all using the same password or combination thereof, thus negating the originally intended security.

My husband has to go through that shit with his company. He has multiple accounts he has to sign into that have different logins and the damned passwords have to be changed every so many weeks AND they can't repeat a password from within six months and the passwords can't be the same from one account to the next.

 

[miplank]

My husband has to go through that shit with his company. He has multiple accounts he has to sign into that have different logins and the damned passwords have to be changed every so many weeks AND they can't repeat a password from within six months and the passwords can't be the same from one account to the next.

yeah, so does pretty much everyone else in the world that has a job that doesn't consist of mowing lawns or flipping burgers.

 

[musclemom]

yeah, so does pretty much everyone else in the world that has a job that doesn't consist of mowing lawns or flipping burgers.

It's ridiculous. It's not like he's in the financial division or even high up in management and the company intranet has firewalls all over the place anyway. It serves no reasonable purpose.

Sometimes I honestly believe some shit is done just to keep the average person in a nearly continual state of mental fatigue, stress and anxiety.

 

[WoodyO]

It's ridiculous. It's not like he's in the financial division or even high up in management and the company intranet has firewalls all over the place anyway. It serves no reasonable purpose.

Sometimes I honestly believe some shit is done just to keep the average person in a nearly continual state of mental fatigue, stress and anxiety.

Actually it's done because he works on a network, and if a hacker can get into a network via a peon's computer, then the whole network of valuable people can get fucked.

 

[musclemom]

Actually it's done because he works on a network, and if a hacker can get into a network via a peon's computer, then the whole network of valuable people can get fucked.

As far as the corporation my husband works for there are no valuable people except the suits in the boardrooms. Everyone else, including the patrons who actually pay everyone's salary, is human kleenex.

 

[WoodyO]

As far as the corporation my husband works for there are no valuable people except the suits in the boardrooms. Everyone else, including the patrons who actually pay everyone's salary, is human kleenex.

That's the way it should be.

 

[musclemom]

That's the way it should be.

I choose to believe you're being sarcastic as you've accused me of being unreasonably nasty to you in the past.

It isn't the way it always was, and it isn't a sustainable business model over the long term. It's what eventually turns all stores into WalMart clones and all eating establishments into Taco Bell.

 

[WoodyO]

I wasn't being sarcastic. People tend to put way too much value on their self worth. Everyone is expendable.

 

[musclemom]

I wasn't being sarcastic. People tend to put way too much value on their self worth. Everyone is expendable.

On a grand cosmic scale, life is transient but expendable? I cannot believe that, it implies disrespect and disregard. I can't see how anyone who feels that way can have any empathy for the people they encounter in their day to day activities.

I can think of half a dozen people I personally know (and I have a rather dull social life) who, if they were to cease to exist, their loss would permanently impact the lives of anywhere to a few others to thousands.

 

[wootoom]

I give a fuck what's going on in the world anymore, I'll worry about my own existence and have a blast.