Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Trained For Coding Career ? FORGET IT ! "AI" Will Do It All Date: 15 Aug 2025 06:51:25 GMT Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <107ei8l$318tt$4@dont-email.me> <20250812075938.000044ad@gmail.com> <107hp68$3pna1$16@dont-email.me> <01ydnZIgq7HkwgD1nZ2dnZfqnPGdnZ2d@giganews.com> <20250814120748.000042f1@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net rg/T5bpdgV03heyhFvUrJQ6OgQ0Ywss4mlG0+rUges1p/6cyg7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SkkMj2SBT0xb/1fclaHB9JIdpgI= sha256:V9eoLUTXuY8+Im1TZz61UO/AfwpyS2cVW3nzkuC/aJs= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:71162 On Fri, 15 Aug 2025 01:22:12 -0400, c186282 wrote: > WORST bit I've seen still out there - essentially unlimited log-in > tries to systems. It's stupid, it's dangerous, it's highly > exploitable. And I'm very happy it exists. The company requires changing our password every three months but it isn't rigorous about the new password so mine are pretty much the same with the requisite uppercase, numeral, and special character. For example P@ssword!, Passw0rd!, !P@ssw0rd, and so forth. I changed mine in the office the last time. Tuesday when I wanted to remote in I found I'd not changed the company laptop and wasn't sure which of the Goldberg Variations it was on. I did manage to hit the right one before getting locked out. Even better, when I tried to update that password it failed. In the past I think it updates itself when it's connected to the VPN but I'm not sure so I may go through the same crap the next time I try to use it. I had happily used the same password for 20 years or more. Then I broke my hip, wound up in rehab, and when they were setting up a laptop so I could work from rehab IT discovered I'd somehow been grandfathered into a permanent password. Then there is AT&T. I haven't used landline long distance in ages and when I tried to log into my seldom used account I had no clue what the password was. 'What is the answer to your secret question?' Not 'what was the name of your first dog' or some other clue what the goddam secret question was that I'd selected when I still had a AT&T calling card.