Passwords and Plants
I think the need to memorize passwords is probably what lead to the fall of the Roman empire.
I am certain this is what will lead to the fall of American Civilization as we know it.
We have bank passwords, we have multiple bank accounts and as such need multiple log ins for each of these accounts. yes you have one bank but you have credit cards, and other things that cause the need to have multiple on line accounts for banks and financial institutions.
then you have accounts that are used for paying your other bills, electricity, cable bills, phone bills, Gas bills. (Sorry to be abusing your name Bill) Then you have insurance bill and all these have different accounts and different password requirements.
Then you have Email accounts, and if you even try to NOT live on the bleeding edge of computing like I do you probably have at least 2 maybe 3 or even 4 different email accounts.
Then you have your social networking accounts, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, the well known ones.
Then you have your hobby accounts for things like 'Tractors Weekly' or 'GL1800Riders.com' or the Model Club.
Then you have the silly accounts for all these stupid posts your brother / son / hubby puts up. Who the hell wants to read all this stuff anyway. Let alone know how to post a reply.
Yes passwords have us tongue tied. Lets face it. Gone are the days when the simple name of your family dog was secure. We used to have a cat named 'Tiger' that was a secure password in 1966 maybe. But now there are downloadable tools that can decrypt and decode passwords like, Eye1Sdad0gSb#$1245" yeah that's a password. Go remember 45 or 50 of those!
Or what's worse, we have systems that force you to change your password every so many days, and then they won't even let you freaking use the one you had last.
Next we are going to start using something like a bio-metric device (fingerprint reader) instead of a password. Then when you really need the password you will forget it because you have been entering your fingerprint for so long. OH
Wait!!!!
That was me last week.
I am certain this is what will lead to the fall of American Civilization as we know it.
We have bank passwords, we have multiple bank accounts and as such need multiple log ins for each of these accounts. yes you have one bank but you have credit cards, and other things that cause the need to have multiple on line accounts for banks and financial institutions.
then you have accounts that are used for paying your other bills, electricity, cable bills, phone bills, Gas bills. (Sorry to be abusing your name Bill) Then you have insurance bill and all these have different accounts and different password requirements.
Then you have Email accounts, and if you even try to NOT live on the bleeding edge of computing like I do you probably have at least 2 maybe 3 or even 4 different email accounts.
Then you have your social networking accounts, Twitter, MySpace, Facebook, the well known ones.
Then you have your hobby accounts for things like 'Tractors Weekly' or 'GL1800Riders.com' or the Model Club.
Then you have the silly accounts for all these stupid posts your brother / son / hubby puts up. Who the hell wants to read all this stuff anyway. Let alone know how to post a reply.
Yes passwords have us tongue tied. Lets face it. Gone are the days when the simple name of your family dog was secure. We used to have a cat named 'Tiger' that was a secure password in 1966 maybe. But now there are downloadable tools that can decrypt and decode passwords like, Eye1Sdad0gSb#$1245" yeah that's a password. Go remember 45 or 50 of those!
Or what's worse, we have systems that force you to change your password every so many days, and then they won't even let you freaking use the one you had last.
Next we are going to start using something like a bio-metric device (fingerprint reader) instead of a password. Then when you really need the password you will forget it because you have been entering your fingerprint for so long. OH
Wait!!!!
That was me last week.
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