Password Fatigue
They've recently put a keypad on the door of the staffroom so that you have to tap in the right combination of letters and numbers in order to open the door. Security, don't ya know. So this left me standing there like an idiot frantically trying every combination I could think of till some youngster came by and did it for me, "it's very easy just ....." Yeah, I know it's very easy. They are all very easy but there are so damn many of them especially if, like me, you work at more than one place and have a problem remembering even your own date of birth.
I've had the same 4-digit PIN for a decade now but I embarrassed myself totally by forgetting it at the crucial moment at the supermarket checkout last week. (No, it's not my DoB) They tell you not to write these things down but I may have to get mine tattooed on my forearm as I get older and my memory deteriorates still further. With any luck the flab and wrinkles will disguise it.
I thought I was just thick, dozy or 'having a senior moment' but it seems that in fact I am a victim of password fatigue. See the article below courtesy of Kerry Maxwell.
Pass through the office security door – enter correct code. Log on to the company computer system – enter password. Buy lunch at a local restaurant with your debit card – enter PIN. Open your front door and disable the alarm – enter password. Check out your bank account online – enter password and PIN. Purchase something on Ebay® – enter username and password ... And so it goes on. If your head is regularly spinning each time you have to summon up those all important sequences of letters and digits, then you could be suffering from password fatigue.
Information technology is the driving force of modern life. Its influence is no longer restricted to the workplace but impacts on all other aspects of our day too – how we shop, eat, travel, manage our finances, find things out, entertain ourselves. But all this convenience opens up security risks which we have to protect ourselves against. We need a virtual padlock, and a virtual key to open it – the ubiquitous password. Research suggests that if someone is a fairly intensive computer user then they’ll have at least 20 online accounts, and possibly many more. And for each, they may need to know a password. Wearily trying to remember them all, they become sufferers of password fatigue.
Please tell me I'm not the only one with this problem.
I've had the same 4-digit PIN for a decade now but I embarrassed myself totally by forgetting it at the crucial moment at the supermarket checkout last week. (No, it's not my DoB) They tell you not to write these things down but I may have to get mine tattooed on my forearm as I get older and my memory deteriorates still further. With any luck the flab and wrinkles will disguise it.
I thought I was just thick, dozy or 'having a senior moment' but it seems that in fact I am a victim of password fatigue. See the article below courtesy of Kerry Maxwell.
Pass through the office security door – enter correct code. Log on to the company computer system – enter password. Buy lunch at a local restaurant with your debit card – enter PIN. Open your front door and disable the alarm – enter password. Check out your bank account online – enter password and PIN. Purchase something on Ebay® – enter username and password ... And so it goes on. If your head is regularly spinning each time you have to summon up those all important sequences of letters and digits, then you could be suffering from password fatigue.
Information technology is the driving force of modern life. Its influence is no longer restricted to the workplace but impacts on all other aspects of our day too – how we shop, eat, travel, manage our finances, find things out, entertain ourselves. But all this convenience opens up security risks which we have to protect ourselves against. We need a virtual padlock, and a virtual key to open it – the ubiquitous password. Research suggests that if someone is a fairly intensive computer user then they’ll have at least 20 online accounts, and possibly many more. And for each, they may need to know a password. Wearily trying to remember them all, they become sufferers of password fatigue.
Please tell me I'm not the only one with this problem.
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