Originally Posted by
Mr Croissant
I am maintaining 138 sets of ID+passwords for umpteen bank/savings accounts, e-shopping websites and other registration stuff and they all insist on their own variety of CAPS, letters and numbers, banned digit combinations. Now they want me to generate a new set of data when I use a card online and carry around the calculator thingy just for creating a new standing order. It is the last thing I take with me when I am packing for a long trip.
I propose we put all the software geeks that devise this stuff into mediEVIL stocks and pelt them with rotten tomatoes until they recant their sins. When they are standing at The Pearly Gates they better have the right user ID +Password and encryption process to hand to get past the Ultimate Boss
Unfortunately I am not a software geek, and as such so did not come up with the concept for the device nor its overall implementation. That said, if you knew how many stupid people out there have handed over their details across to phishers, you can easily see why the banks have had to put these systems in place. That said, I totally understand your frustration as I am in a similar situation to yourself with having too many passwords etc to remember.
Unfortunately there is no one master authentication system which we can utilise as nobody wants to give one organisation that much control over their data............ This is going to be a tough problem to crack.