I just encountered the 'be-all words' of the digital world ! "Please enter your Password". Well, the one that I remembered didn't provide the anticipated entrance. "To retrieve your password, please enter 'User Name' ". Struck out on that one also. Found the correct answer for the 'mystery question'..."how many angels can dance on the head of a pin ?" Too many codes to remember and don't dare write and store them somewhere and better not use the same one for every account !
It seems that there is a malevolent species lurking for the unwary . . . 'hackers' and 'phishers'.
It's because of these malevolent types that some sites have now added
another layer of security called 'double authentication'. DOUBLE !!
There are those among us who find a challenge in remembering the initial key. And while seeking to open an email just now from a health care organization, I was greeted with this: "Logging into your account has been temporarily blocked due to too many failed authentication attempts. For assistance, please contact this number (***-***-****)."
He used the wrong password
Friends tell me that their occupations now require 'encryption' of sensitive emails, especially those containing someone's PHI (another new acronym Personal Health Information), financial data, photographs, and other items "for your eyes only". A former co-worker related that he had grown so annoyed with one's platform's login procedures that he adopted the password "PainNderBohunkus!" for transactions.
A much more congenial "Password" has been a sporadically produced t.v. game show by that name. And, according to Wikipedia, there is a 2022 reiteration of that program. Once upon a time (and maybe still so) there was a play at home version. You remember . . . partner A can give their partner only a one-word clue for THE CORRECT WORD.
Lightning quick word associations can sometimes be embarrassing as they were for a friend's response to the clue "Fondle".
Almost proved to be as dangerous as being "blocked for too many failed authentication attempts".
Satchel
