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On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Anton Berezin wrote:
> Yes, stupid, it's mine account, but what is it??
My "favorite" is my login for the Apple Developer's site, where the
password has credible minimum complexity requirements (it must have
letters, numbers, and mixed case; it can't be based on a dictionary
word; etc) and you have to change the thing every few months.
For a login account, these rules are reasonable, but for a web site?
Come on...
So because I usually only log in a couple of times a year, I end up
having to change my password more or less every time I use the site, and
inevitably I can't remember it from one login to the next.
A couple of years ago, I found what seemed to be a bug in OSX, so I
tried to log in to report it. But I'd forgotten my login. Again. So I
tried a few variants before being locked out, then just got frustrated
and made a whole new account to report the bug.
Within a day or two, I got a phone call -- an actual phone call! -- from
an Apple engineer asking what the problem was logging in to the site. He
showed no interest in the bug report, only the login issues. He never
actually *fixed* the login issues, he just wanted to ask about them.
Now, whenever I try to log in, habit makes me use the old login, because
that's the one I use on lots of other sites, but as usual I can't
remember my password so I have to go through the old "try this one, try
this one... got it" routine... ...but then I realize that I've just
"successfully" logged in to my old account, and I get sent back to the
log in screen with a nasty scolding:
THIS ACCOUNT HAS BEEN DISABLED DUE TO SECURITY REASONS.
Arse.
So then I try the other login and it works, but at this point I'm so
frustrated that I go do something else.
Like rant on a mailing list :-/
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Chris Devers
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