UMass Amherst practiced some good IT hygiene last week and required students to change their network passwords. Students were sent to a password-change page with helpful password tips, including words not to use:
No popular terms such as umass, redsox, password, etc.
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By JohnAKeith
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 4:13pm
.." masshole ..."
Many Sites Have Requirements for the Password
By Aeroguy
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:31pm
Say
Yes, but ...
By adamg
Wed, 05/17/2017 - 10:54pm
How many sites have to tell you not to use "redsox" as part of your password?
At my work, not only do our passwords need to conform
By roadman
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 9:32am
to the above rules, they must also be changed every 60 days. Also, we can't repeat the same password for at least ten times.
That's a good way to make
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 4:23pm
That's a good way to make sure people have to write down their passwords on a scrap of paper in their wallet. Which is very risk.
Because I can't see any other way to keep track of dozens of passwords, all with different requirements, which have to change frequently.
yes, but
By downtown-anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 8:05am
Is lateseasoncollapse on the list of bad passwords? Or yankeessuck?
Or
By anon
Thu, 05/18/2017 - 9:17am
'yankthese'?
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