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18770 is nothing, you should see what the Microsoft employees have to do to log in at work!
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Msgina.dll :P
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The idea of a 30,000 word password isn't all that bad. You could use your favourite book, and copy/paste it into the er...textfield?
Maybe an upload.
I guess it would be easier to use a unique image.
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That "illicit feedback" must be catching - I saw the same phrase in an email from Microsoft recently.
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English is a crazy language
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Unfortunately, from a password strength perspective, this would have about the same entropy as the book's ISBN. :-P
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Another gem from that same support document: Note that the number of required characters changes from 17,145 to 18,770 with the installation of SP1.
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I find the last one rather ironic. The last thing that users of this site should be submitting is errors in word choice and grammar.
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In programming, you may spend days trying to find a misplaced semi-colon.
When logging in, you may spend months of company-time plus the support crew's time finding a misplaced w.
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While I agree with the general assertion that English has some wacky facets to it, he's lumping grammar, spelling, etymology and idioms together. I can't take him seriously.
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Also a WTF:
What kind of requirements elicitation process has eliciting feedback as "optional"?
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And by a guy who spells his name "Brien", no less. (Just kidding, man, don't take it personelly.)
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You're not supposed to. See how it's filed under the "humor" directory?
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-Harrow.
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Nah. It's just the new policy: They set the requirements and users accept them.
Users that insist upon commenting are clearly in violation of this new policy...hence these would be "illicit user comments".
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I'm only wondering where these numbers come from. Examples like this one have been seen on WTF but those where rounding errors or overflows or whatever. Now, how does this relate to a password strategy. Obviously something went wrong, but what?
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Thats not a bad idea for something... Do some accounts require a password AND an image?
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Are we running short of material or what? That MS one is pretty desparate. Since when has it been "good enough" to post a link to a bug report/KB article/FAQ entry that merely describes a bug, rather than a graphic of the requester (or whatever) showing the actual bug itself? Hell, if that's what passes for humour these days:
http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla
Go ahead, knock yourself out. Sheesh, pathetic! Even the trivial homonym typo ('illicit' for 'elicit') is funnier than that.
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I just assumed that the instructions told what to do if the user supplied invalid feedback, and used the word "illicit" instead of "invalid" becauses they wanted to sound fancy.
Therefore, it passed my mental validity check... which is the definition of "Worse Than Failure". It "works", but really doesn't.
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I think I've seen that first one before. It's Kerebos isn't it? And I'm sure I saw it at this site.
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Yeah, I saw that. And oh by the way, it's never optional. Unless you intend to quit your job the day the product launches.
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Darn it, meant to quote this with my above comment.
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Darn it, meant to quote this with my above comment.
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Admittedly, to even make these errors, your light-years ahead of people who make the error in this sentence.
sas
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CAPTCHA: stinky, which is how I feel about grammar errors
/an English teacher Your light years what?
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Your light year's a head.
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Just one note regarding the years: 9999 and 2008 are valid years. But 0 is not a valid year.
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Your light years effect more than my light years.
My light years couldn't even effect a special.
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What do you think "the error in this sentence" refers to?
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Captcha: Scooter Vroom!
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On Language Log they've coined the handy term 'incorrection' for what someone does when they think they're correcting something that isn't actually wrong.
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Don't worry about that. With average typing error rates and practically zero visual feedback, the probability of correctly typing 18770 high-entropy characters is much lower than 1 in 30689. In fact, you'll probably never repeat such a password in your lifetime, even if you tried...
I hope the password change dialog supports cut+paste!
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Sure it is, it is the one that comes after 9999 when the y10k bug manifests itself.
-Notan
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writing secure code with M$ ;-)
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I think that was his point... if a hammer acts by hammering, then why doesn't a writer act by writering, instead of writing?
or something like that...
captcha: pointer (a pointer points, so why doesn't a-- nevermind...)
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i really think you need to stop what you r doing to the bible is really wrong i really hate thhat