Pet Peeve #324
I friggin’ hate when websites make me change my password every x weeks.
And not only that, they’ll do things like require that your password has at least one letter, one number, one CAPITAL letter, and eight characters minimum. Like… grargh, really? It’s hard enough for me to remember one of these, let alone a dozen.
AND AND AND… they will actually keep track of your old passwords, so that you don’t just type in the same one in. So not only are you being forced to come up with something new, they don’t even purge the database of your old one, so if THEIR site was compromised…….
I get it conceptually; yes, yes, it’s more secure, to change your password on occasion. But besides all the points I already mentioned, it really, REALLY annoys me when a website has an inflated sense of importance by including this “feature”.
Like I logged into USC’s School of Cinematic Arts website for the first time since I registered for the stupid thing two point five years ago, and the first thing I see is, “HAY. CHANGE PASSWORD PLZ.”
Rrrgggghhh.
