It’s World Password Day, — celebrate with a new password!

5 May 2016 is World Password Day 2016! So change your password(s) to a more secure one today and often – well, that’s the advice I get, and I suppose you too.  Nowadays, with the popularity of online deals (banking, purchase, etc), secure passwords are increasingly important. And multi-factor authentications are becoming a norm too, e.g. fingerprint, the little no. pad thing you get from bank, the SMS OTP (one time password) you get via your mobile, and the latest – your selfie is used as OTP!  That may well be needed and useful as you can see from the “Joke” (or I’d say rather real experience for some!) below:  But jokes apart, go to here for some good advice on better passwords.

PASSWORD PROBLEMS:

WINDOWS: Please enter your new password.

USER: cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

USER: boiled cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

USER: 1 boiled cabbage

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

USER: 50bloodyboiledcabbages

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password must contain at least one uppercase character.

USER: 50BLOODYboiledcabbages

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot use more than one uppercase character consecutively.

USER: 50BloodyBoiledCabbagesYouStupidIdiotGiveMeAccessNow!

WINDOWS: Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

USER : IWillHuntYouDown50BloodyBoiledCabbagesYouStupidIdiotGiveMeAccessNow

WINDOWS: Sorry, that password is already in use.😂

(This joke won an award for the Best Joke in a competition held in Britain)