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My work email has been prompting me to change my network login password for the past two weeks. Of course I’ve been ignoring it because frankly having to change my password every four months is annoying. Every four months and it cannot contain my first name, last name or any numbers from my social. OK simple enough, I’ve got a stable of go-to passwords for just such occasions.

But this time the password gods weren’t in a very forgiving mood and enacted a new Kerbos-based password requirement. You know the drill: your password must contain at least 7 characters and no more than 21, consisting of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numerals AND special characters (#, $, &, etc.) Good god man!

The last time I had such a convoluted password was back at school where enrolling for classes meant I had to remember a combination of the girl I had a crush on/where I was born/my favorite hockey player’s number/my initials. Frankly that’s not going to fly at work. Actually what I came up with (after 9 unsuccessful tries) was something much worse because now checking my email is roughly the equivalent of accessing the nuclear codes.