Top 10 passwords you should never use

[hitony]

You can use the same password but surely if that password is extremely strong than that's ok.

I tend to vary passwords though, anyone using passwords like "12345" is just stupid, or there own username.

Perhaps you should make a sticky Bozza about making stronger passwords, as if 37 grown adults are using their own name is just stupid...

The password, on here or anywhere else come to that is the responsibility of the user.

 

[Andrew]

Can I just seriously confirm something, I could'nt remember my password a couple years ago, so PMed Bozza and asked him to supply me with it, he could'nt as he can't access it, if my memory serves me well I think El Presidente had same sort of problems many moons ago.

So please don't worry guys

Bozza sorted out my account problems too in which I think I had to give hi my password.

 

[dejavuatbtn]

Panic over Mr Mainwaring. Thanks.

 

[Bozza]

Possibly the most common access problem users experience surrounds the following...

- They registered on NSC years ago.
- They set up a random password at the time.
- They use the remember me/keep me logged in feature for when they re-visit

They then need to use NSC on another computer and/or they no longer have access to the email address they registered to NSC with. When confronted with this, they'll email me for help.

I will then:

- manually reset their password and, even though this password will be short-lived, I always make it reasonably strong incorporating uppercase, lowercase and numerics.
- email this password to the user so they can login.
- instruct the user to change their password to something they'll know and I won't ASAP.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Has anyone on here not got 'seagulls' as a password for something, somewhere?

 

[Garage_Doors]

37 members of NSC have their password set to be the same as their username.

Time to get hacking

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

I wonder how many have "Seagulls" or "albion" as their password

 

[Bozza]

I wonder how many have "Seagulls" or "albion" as their password

I did this before, quite a few years ago, when NSC allowed you to search for users based on password. (As someone said before though, this didn't indicate that passwords were clear text and viewable, simply that the entered value was hashed and all matching accounts returned)

I imagine a search on me using the word 'password' on here would find the thread quite quickly.

 

[Amahwrang]

my password is eight characters

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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.getting me coat on right now!

 

[seagull_special]

my password is gkgjdfsfdhkjhfd765768nnjnjj - nobody will ever guess it!!!!!!!!

 

[Blackadder]

I wonder how many have "Seagulls" or "albion" as their password

Some did a few years back. Some Palace fans guessed their passwords and started posting pro palace threads on behalf of NSCers.

 

[Gazwag]

Quite. Many people will have the same password for NSC, Facebook, email etc etc. Which leaves it open to abuse, especially now there's direct links between NSC and Facebook. Mods should not have access to unencrypted passwords.

Its so Bozza and transfer the cash he needs from our bank accounts to keep the site running, club shirt sponsorship, funding away trips, etc













(disclaimer - He doesn't really)

 

[Norman Potting]

You could I suppose use the same password for everything but add the first two letters of the site you are using to it.

I have had some spurious e-mails sent from my work e-mail - no idea how as it has a strong password that only I know. Digressing slightly I also was contacted by my bank to point out two spurious entries on my account (both phone top ups for modest amounts) and a a blocked attempt at a third - well done to them as they spotted them before I did so it at least shows their security systems work. Once again baffled as to how the perpetrator got my card details.

 

[DanielT]

Lastpass

 

[cloud]

Never register with some crappy website and use the same password that you do for your email, since the site will then have access to all your passwords.

 

[seagullsovergrimsby]

if my memory serves me well I think El Presidente had same sort of problems many moons ago.

In the words of Pele , did El Pres have a "password dysfunction"

 

[Bozza]

Lastpass

Password Manager Last Pass Possibly Hacked | TechCrunch

 

[Gwylan]

Has anyone on here not got 'seagulls' as a password for something, somewhere?

I don't. Nor have I got Albion.

A lot of my passwords are Welsh - which look like a random collection of letters anyway

 

[Seagull Steve]

I can confirm rubber dolls are used .................

you dirty bastard. Now just stop watching, I can't get going with voyeurs like you watching, and I feel that my latex lady would be embarrassed if she knew.

 

[Mr Smggles]

how is "qwerty" not in that list?!?