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Don\u2019t worry, this one is kind of fun and interesting.<\/p>\nDon\u2019t worry, this one is kind of fun and interesting.<\/p>\n
I’ve been getting a Passwords Compromised<\/strong><\/span> notice in my browser for months. I\u2019ve ignored it, as I suspect most people do.<\/p>\n Let\u2019s face it, with every website demanding that you create an account, and so many of those websites being hacked almost instantly, you just stop paying attention.<\/p>\n For some reason, perhaps it\u2019s that I\u2019m cranky, this morning I decided to explore the websites that were compromised and change passwords or delete accounts.<\/p>\n I\u2019m heavily favoring the latter over the former.<\/p>\n Anyhoo\u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n I was surprised to note that on a lot of the “compromised websites”, my passwords were obscenities.<\/p>\n I know how most of these obscenities came to be my passwords. It\u2019s about frustration and annoyance. In most situations, I was trying to take care of something completely unrelated to passwords and the website in question decided to force a password change.<\/p>\n Apparently \u201cFuckYou96&yourmother^$#<\/strong>\u201d Is commonly used. Who Knew?<\/p>\n \u201cBlowMECocksuckers!-2021<\/strong>\u201d and “LickMyFilthyhole-Asshole!9000<\/strong>” are also common.<\/p>\n This suggests that I\u2019m not the only person who has become sick and tired of Websites, Their demanding that accounts be created, and \u201cSecure\u201d passwords.<\/p>\n Of the 36 websites whose passwords were compromised in various data leaks, I now have 16 left.<\/p>\n I\u2019ve deleted the others. Honestly, do I really need a password and an account to confirm a haircut appointment? Uh, NOPE!<\/p>\n Since I canceled Amazon Prime, Netflix, and Hulu. There was no need for their residual threads to be stored in my browser, so I deleted them. The same with T-Mobile.<\/p>\n I was looking at a credit card login that used to work really well, then the rights to the card were purchased by another company and the new company website has never worked.<\/p>\n There\u2019s no reason for me to maintain that login\u2026 Or that credit card account for that matter. I haven\u2019t closed the account yet, but that day is coming and I\u2019m looking forward to it.<\/p>\n The last stored password for that website is embarrassingly filthy! Which speaks to my frustration with the site, the creditor, and their offshore “customer service<\/em>\u201d.<\/p>\n Oh, that embarrassingly filthy password? It\u2019s on the list of passwords that have appeared in various data breaches. Again, apparently I\u2019m not alone in losing my temper trying to reset passwords.<\/p>\n Then there are those passwords that have been \u201cReused\u201d. Except they\u2019re not. Some of the banking sites are a conglomeration of websites with different domain names but who all use the same initial login.<\/p>\n These poorly designed banking sites trip the security settings because you have no choice but to reuse passwords due to the way the sites work.\u00a0<\/p>\n I would argue that these sites create a laissez-faire attitude because they cause end users to be endlessly warned about something they have no control over. Which results in the users being far more likely to ignore all warnings about passwords that their browser may present.<\/p>\n This is how someone like me ends up with 36 warnings that have gone ignored for months, years, decades?<\/p>\n Don\u2019t get me started about cookies. More precisely, don\u2019t get me started about the cookie notifications or the sites that feel it\u2019s necessary to give you cookie notifications daily, monthly or anytime something changes on the site. (Yes, I know this site does that. Thank the EU!)<\/p>\n It looks like I\u2019m not going to be able to delete these other sites for a while, so I\u2019ll have to continue ignoring the warnings, or actually waste a ton of time changing the passwords. Ugh! That means I\u2019ll be using the automatic password generator a lot.<\/p>\n You\u2019d think that would make it easier but it doesn\u2019t because it seems that the website designers create obstacles designed to prevent password generators from working.<\/p>\n I suppose I need to decide if I\u2019m cranky enough that I don\u2019t want to do anything else but mess with websites and passwords, or ignore the whole mess and do something else that I\u2019d prefer to do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Don\u2019t worry, this one is kind of fun and interesting. I’ve been getting a Passwords Compromised notice in my browser for months. I\u2019ve ignored it, as I suspect most people do. Let\u2019s face it, with every website demanding that you create an account, and so many of those websites being hacked almost instantly, you just … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/bone-in-the-throat.com\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/TankGirlwbat.png\" "\\"TankGirlwbat.png\\"")
Thus derailing my intent and turning what should have been a 90 second interaction into a tour de force of guessing what combination of letter, symbols, number, and special characters would please the website, allowing me to do what I\u2019d accessed the website to do to begin with. That is, if I remembered what I\u2019d gone to the site for in the first place.<\/p>\n