Comments on: Logins And Passwords Stickied To Your Computer http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/ Where the world comes to complain. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:36:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: rouschkateer http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-7919 rouschkateer Tue, 04 Nov 2008 03:33:13 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-7919 I'm with rico - I used to work in IT, and I threw the notes away. They always called me. I told them why I threw it away. I also told them I would be back, so choose a password you'll remember. Under the keyboards, under the edge of the monitor, right under the desk...first places I look. I’m with rico - I used to work in IT, and I threw the notes away. They always called me. I told them why I threw it away. I also told them I would be back, so choose a password you’ll remember.

Under the keyboards, under the edge of the monitor, right under the desk…first places I look.

]]> By: rico http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-7889 rico Tue, 04 Nov 2008 02:23:22 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-7889 Being an IT manager myself, seeing this makes me cringe. If I see one of the users at my place of employment with their username and password stuck to their monitor with sticky paper, I'll either throw it away or hide it on them... Being an IT manager myself, seeing this makes me cringe. If I see one of the users at my place of employment with their username and password stuck to their monitor with sticky paper, I’ll either throw it away or hide it on them…

]]> By: Lawrence http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-3606 Lawrence Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:37:29 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-3606 I get tempted to type them in I get tempted to type them in

]]> By: Sub1ime14 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-365 Sub1ime14 Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:40:45 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-365 Amen. I used to work IT for a company who sent visiting staff (nurses, therapists, health aides, etc) into homes of people, and I swear, at least 4-5 out of every 10 laptops I would work on had the password not just sticked, but straight-up taped to the laptop... that is, it was COATED IN TAPE (you know, so it won't wear out, causing you to have to go through all the tremendous and awful horror of writing it down on ANOTHER paper and taping it again - gasp!). And these passwords were typically 4-digit numbers (ATM pin numbers, anyone?). When we FINALLY got approved to enforce a strong password policy, I'd say about 9 out of 10 laptops had adopted this convenient little method of "remembering" passwords. These were laptops that contained people's health care information and spent most of their time either in strangers' houses or in employees' cars (we can only hope they locked their doors). Amen.

I used to work IT for a company who sent visiting staff (nurses, therapists, health aides, etc) into homes of people, and I swear, at least 4-5 out of every 10 laptops I would work on had the password not just sticked, but straight-up taped to the laptop… that is, it was COATED IN TAPE (you know, so it won’t wear out, causing you to have to go through all the tremendous and awful horror of writing it down on ANOTHER paper and taping it again - gasp!). And these passwords were typically 4-digit numbers (ATM pin numbers, anyone?). When we FINALLY got approved to enforce a strong password policy, I’d say about 9 out of 10 laptops had adopted this convenient little method of “remembering” passwords.

These were laptops that contained people’s health care information and spent most of their time either in strangers’ houses or in employees’ cars (we can only hope they locked their doors).

]]> By: RedneckTech http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-314 RedneckTech Sun, 01 Jul 2007 21:38:33 +0000 http://mybiggestcomplaint.com/logins-and-passwords-stickied-to-your-computer/218/#comment-314 This literally drives me batshit... If I saw this at my workplace (I'm the IT manager), I would lock their accounts immediately and force them to call the helpdesk to get a case number, which is then routed to me here locally, and then make them wait until I determine some wacked-out password they will never remember, and forbid them to write it down again. They can change their passwords at will, the policy isn't really strict, but for god sakes, don't leave it out for everyone to get hold of... This literally drives me bat****…

If I saw this at my workplace (I’m the IT manager), I would lock their accounts immediately and force them to call the helpdesk to get a case number, which is then routed to me here locally, and then make them wait until I determine some wacked-out password they will never remember, and forbid them to write it down again. They can change their passwords at will, the policy isn’t really strict, but for god sakes, don’t leave it out for everyone to get hold of…

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