“Sorry, your password is too secure. Please try again with a password no longer than 6 characters, containing lowercase alphabets only.”
I am tired of being told by a website that my password is too long, or contains non-alphanumeric characters which aren’t allowed. I am bewildered that most websites balking at long and complex passwords are financial sites, like bank and credit card sites.
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I ran out of adjectives starting with “S” to describe what I believe is the very best password management solution currently available, PasswordMaker. PasswordMaker is an implementation of the on-the-fly site-specific web password hashing system.
How many accounts/passwords do you have? One for your Email? Bank(s)? Credit card(s)? Phone companies? School? Work? Utilities? Google? Yahoo? Facebook? MySpace? Amazon? Ebay? NYTimes? Torrent trackers? That annoying website that made you register just to use the simplest feature? (Oh wait, every website is like that nowadays.) I think you get the point. Even the average, casual Internet user can easily have dozens of accounts/passwords. In this day and age, computerized password management systems are absolutely necessary for even casual Internet users, and PasswordMaker is the king of password management.
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