Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for February 18, 2023

A matter of priorities.

You better believe i can remember what you said buster.

“You said ‘good morning’.” :D :D :D

And she’ll never forgive you for what you said.

Women are like that. Yeah, they are haha

A lecture on emotional scarring soon followed, along with an example, to aid in learning.

One of the questions that is frequently asked in job interviews is “What is one of your weaknesses?”

My answer is that I have a difficult time remembering the details of verbal instructions. Then I go on to say, “That’s why you will find me wandering the halls with a small spiral notebook. On the cover it says, ‘(my name’s) Short Term memory. I write things down so I don’t have to remember them.”

I learned this from a coworker who would often challenge me when I said something. She’d pull out HER book leaf through it and say, ’Back on October 15th, you said …" She kept me honest. :).

Of course she can. Memory in humans relates to context.

Your point being?

The password’s not important. The relationship is.

Join the club big guy

They really cannot remember anything like that but they also know that you will not either so they sally forth with a bald faced lie knowing you will not counter.

It’s a woman thing..

Yep

She should have used what he said in 2008 as a password.

I would be able to remember passwords if the silly sites would not make up stupid rules. They insist on 2 uppercase letters, 2 lower case letters, 2 numbers, 2 punctuation marks (and the allowable list varies from site to site) and it has to be no less than 6 characters (um, with 2 of each of the above, it has to be at least 8) and less than 20 characters.

Most of my passwords are close to 20 characters or more. Some sites ignore the extra characters others will reject the password.

The most common type of compromise is when someone hacks into a site and gets the list of credentials. The passwords SHOULD be encrypted. Any company that doesn’t do this is criminally negligent. So hackers have to use a brute-force approach: they take a guess and then encrypt it to see if it matches. The more restrictions a company puts on its passwords, the easier this task becomes.

For each additional character you put in your password, this task becomes 72 times harder (if you are allowed to use the full keyboard). According to one password checker, passwords that are 7 characters long can be hacked in 22 seconds. Double that to 14 characters and you’re talking about 12 THOUSAND YEARS. A hacker isn’t going to spend that much time trying to crack it and move onto lower hanging fruit.

I am now job hunting. Each site wants its own password. I know that one should not reuse passwords. But 50 individual passwords for what is a limited time application would be too much to keep track of. I use the same credentials for every one of them. My password is long enough: estimated hack time is 93 trillion years.

Selective memory, unlike selective hearing, can be moderately confusing!

https://youtu.be/29JPnJSmDs0Takes a while, but. It. Is. Worth. It!