February 28, 2017 at 2:07 PM
You might have noticed over the last 6 months or so that if you use a Mac, all of a sudden you keep getting asked for your password for iCloud or for Gmail or your MacID. From what I can tell, companies are changing their API authorization methods going to 2 factor authentication. If your mail client like AirMail, Thunderbird, Mail or others don’t change when Apple or google do your app can keep trying to log in and exceed the limit and when you go to the website directly, it has locked you out. That is one scenario. Sites are making you create longer and more complex passwords. Also, not to use the same password for multiple sites. I have probably 75 services that require a UID and password. Abviously you can’t create that many unique passwords in your head let alone remember them. So you need to use a password manager like 1Password, LastTime, Dashlane or Apple’s keychain access. None of them are perfect and can overwrite a good password or create new entries every time you visit a site.
I am so tired of entering credentials I want to just quit using all the services that are convenient and useful. The password managers can auto log you in to sites but you need an accurate database or you start failing log ins and then they lock you out more quickly. Some don’t support 24/7 so you could be SOOL.
I really don’t know who is going to try and break a 10 character including caps, numbers or symbols. Very few support passphrase which are more secure and easier to remember and create. I would like to see passphrase implemented across the board. But we need to rethink this whole paradigm. I have the thumbprint device but that isn’t even good enough and apple will have you enter your pin anyways. It is the same irritating tactic companies are using to put code out faster and faster. The user becomes the tester. I have never seen apple issue so many fixes to its OS. Not withstanding all this bother, millions of ids and passwords get stolen from some company’s database. Sometimes in open text.
Then there is the banks and credit card companies that freak out if you buy something overseas. That is why it is called the WorldWide Web!! They think anyone buying $100 bucks of junk could be funding terrorists. Jesus Christ! The Saudi’s fund most of them and their our friends!!!
If my words upset you, get over it. It may be time to stop using all but the most essential online services and see if going out of business will get more attention on this. They base their red flags on your IP address. That can change all the time. Or you deleted their cookies and they freak like you are a hacker.
Then there are the security questions. Some are so bad the answers are usually on a social account. Or they make them case sensitive which is really stupid. Did I capitalize my first pets name? Or your favorite actor. Companies are so pleased with themselves going Digital. I feel like that kid who throws his phone on the ground. I am beginning to just stop when its late and I can’t face looking up the password. I don’t want a new version every two weeks or month. I don’t know half the features of most apps so new features go unused and our personal information is stolen, sold and you might as well have everything posted in the papers. And if you do try to use tools to keep things private, LE think you are a bad guy.
Its nice everyone thinks positive as if that elimates risk. I am here to tell you shit happens a lot and will again.
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