On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 08:22 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > I'm against the usual password polices, as well. Repetitively changing > your password is no guarantee of avoiding being hacked, and is more > likely to lead to you forgetting your passwords. And weird untypeable > and unmemorable number and letter combinations are more of a problem > for yourself than any exploiters. And when banks tell you that you > must use an eight-character-long password I just want to scream at > them.
I couldn't agree more. I always tell people to use a password manager, preferably not the one in their browser. Then the banks come up with their ridiculous login policies which (in every case I know about) actually *prevent* you from using a PM to log in. You have to store authentication info in a secure note and copy-paste into the website. And at least one bank I know blocks you from using copy-paste, a policy which seems tailor-made to force people to use simple passwords. Luckily we're on Linux so we can do the middle-button thing, which they can't trap. Or has Wayland dropped support for that? poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
