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Sorry, that's TOO secure a password

I was offered a free year of credit monitoring a.k.a Identity Theft Protection with Equifax, so I signed up today.

Lame passwordsIf you're ever going to use a super-strong password I suggest Equifax is the place.

So I made up a nice strong one; mixtures of upper and lower case, numbers, punctuation. Nice.

Except Equifax, the people that "serve our customers by utilizing information and technology that provide real-time answers to increasingly complex questions", won't accept my password.

Apparently, they can't accept punctuation.

Lame.


Posted: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:56 PM by James

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jay leask said:

I know - I hate sites that restrict characters you can use in your password, especially sites that are "secure" like banks etc - why is it my favorite sports forum will allow me to have a 50 alphanumeric + spaces + punctuation password but my credit card company won't? *sigh*
# October 23, 2007 12:14 PM

Adron said:

Of all places that SHOULD be using a secure password. The twisted irony of that. ...so I wonder what the crack time is of someone who wants Equifax information is. Lame is a great word, so is; sad, stupid, dumb, amazingly retarded, etc. Wow. Then of course there are numerous other banking and financial establishments out there that have issues with this stuff.
# November 9, 2007 8:25 AM
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