<![CDATA[Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!]]>Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive!

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/36489aa0-837d-48ab-8b99-67b52e31347b/having-had-a-little-password-difficulty-on-my-wife-s-tablet-this-evening...-this-@tomgauld.bsky.social-cartoon-came-to-mind....-sometimes-trying-to-recall-your-password-under-pressure-is-just-counterproductiveRSS for NodeThu, 14 May 2026 23:35:28 GMTMon, 04 May 2026 21:21:20 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:22 GMT]]>@PVTejas @ChrisMayLA6 That just happened here, was on the news this morning. The guy that blew up got suspended from university for 6 weeks because he forgot the password he needs to log in to the testing platform during an exam. He blew up in the face of the exam guards and got removed.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/eq/statuses/116528285096296019https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mas.to/users/eq/statuses/116528285096296019Wed, 06 May 2026 15:15:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 17:13:59 GMT]]>@michaelormsby @ChrisMayLA6 "Your password was incorrect." - "Ah, then the current one must be 'incorrect2'." - "Second password was incorrect, too."

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tessarakt/statuses/116523089217976902https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/tessarakt/statuses/116523089217976902Tue, 05 May 2026 17:13:59 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 14:20:18 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social
That reminded me of a scene from the excellent and greatly underrated comedy sci-fi series Hyperdrive (Nick Frost, Miranda Hart, Kevin Eldon). There is a pressing need to shoot an alien, and the guns have all been factory reset to remove a virus, and require a set of questions to be answered prior to first use.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://europhiles.uk/users/dave/statuses/01KQW85P8KAT23AEDT4DMY9YPShttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://europhiles.uk/users/dave/statuses/01KQW85P8KAT23AEDT4DMY9YPSTue, 05 May 2026 14:20:18 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 05:44:42 GMT]]>@tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us haha โ€‹โ€‹ like the cartoon ๐Ÿ™‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://der.cyberterror.ist/notes/alvrpyi0vejv2dnbhttps://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://der.cyberterror.ist/notes/alvrpyi0vejv2dnbTue, 05 May 2026 05:44:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 04:47:42 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116520154697146074https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/GOKUSHRM/statuses/116520154697146074Tue, 05 May 2026 04:47:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:50:30 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy the reactor didn't blow up. This guy got angry and blew up, understandably

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/PVTejas/statuses/116519929784053394https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mstdn.social/users/PVTejas/statuses/116519929784053394Tue, 05 May 2026 03:50:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:22:53 GMT]]>@steve_zeke
I'm using the same address for 25 years now. Own domain, paying a low monthly fee to my email provider. Switched the provider once when the old one forced migration to MS Outlook. Ad-free, provider doesn't sell my data.
@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116519821206299817https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116519821206299817Tue, 05 May 2026 03:22:53 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 03:09:06 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social That illustrates why we're taught requirements always have priority over requirements. "You don't password-protect an emergency stop button".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116519767003167567https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://infosec.exchange/users/martinrust/statuses/116519767003167567Tue, 05 May 2026 03:09:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 01:51:42 GMT]]>@jgg also, the oven gloves are colour-coordinated. So unrealistic.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/fuzzy/statuses/116519462679861198https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://beige.party/users/fuzzy/statuses/116519462679861198Tue, 05 May 2026 01:51:42 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Tue, 05 May 2026 01:36:56 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 somewhat reminiscent of "Of Ants and Dinosaurs"!

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/InarticulateOtter/statuses/116519404580374868https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.social/users/InarticulateOtter/statuses/116519404580374868Tue, 05 May 2026 01:36:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Mon, 04 May 2026 23:45:07 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social
๐Ÿคฃ
On the phone with Hilton hotels yesterday trying to recover a very old loyalty program account. Phone agent asked:
Name โœ…
Phone โœ…
Email ๐Ÿค”
Me: "Can you tell me the domain?"

"No, I can't tell you that."

I went through every email I could think of for several minutes. Then I gave up. I made the account 15 years ago. Now I know to always put the associated email in my password manager. But 15 years ago? It was probably an email I no longer have.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/steve_zeke/statuses/116518964930675345https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://freeradical.zone/users/steve_zeke/statuses/116518964930675345Mon, 04 May 2026 23:45:07 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Mon, 04 May 2026 22:42:58 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy Passwords are a pain. But are increasingly deprecated. Passkeys or password managers are now recommended. Or a very complex password for each site, in a little anonymous looking notebook that never leaves the house.
OTOH I know people who don't even try to recall passwords, but use the password reset procedure- which is a bit like using a passkey in effect.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/TerryBTwo/statuses/116518720568919023https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://ohai.social/users/TerryBTwo/statuses/116518720568919023Mon, 04 May 2026 22:42:58 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Mon, 04 May 2026 22:16:29 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 One day I realized in high stress or anger I temporarily forget passwords. That day I created second Keepass database for "offline things", like pendrives, encrypted volumes and external drives, hardware keys... I felt it was risky after ~2 years without any notes for that part of things.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/madargon/statuses/116518616415905469https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://is-a.cat/users/madargon/statuses/116518616415905469Mon, 04 May 2026 22:16:29 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Having had a little password difficulty on my wife's tablet this evening... this @tomgauld.bsky.social cartoon came to mind.... sometimes, trying to recall your password under pressure is just counterproductive! on Mon, 04 May 2026 21:25:26 GMT]]>@ChrisMayLA6 @tomgauld.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy I always set my passwords to the phrase โ€œincorrectโ€. That way if I forget it I get a nice handy reminder โ€œYour password is incorrectโ€œ.

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/michaelormsby/statuses/116518415659205298https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://mastodon.art/users/michaelormsby/statuses/116518415659205298Mon, 04 May 2026 21:25:26 GMT