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Bad UI: Passwords

Started by paulmwatson · 10 months ago

The Adobe Worldwide Licensing website is not the only offender of this heinous UI process crime but it is the latest in a long string and has tipped me into writing about it.

The problem here is that it took three submits for me to get the password right. The first time I entered the page [.. ... Continue reading »

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  • Steve Crane

    1 year ago

    My pet hate is sites that happily accept my chosen password but refuse to let me login next time I visit. Why is this? I use KeePass Password Safe and have it generate nice cryptic passwords for me. The default length was 16 characters and I have never seen a need to change that. What seems to happen is that some sites restrict password lengths to some number, often ten, and rather than warning you that your chosen password exceeds this, they simply truncate it. It is quite amazing how many sites do this.
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  • Neil Wilson

    1 year ago

    I had this the other day on the British Gas website. Frankly I'm not that bothered about that account. If somebody wants to login and pay my gas bill I'm quite happy for them to do so.

    And why do we persist with pass*words*? Why can't we have arbitrary length passphrases - with spaces in.
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