Passwords - and multiple devices

[Triforium]

Passwords? AAaaarrrrgggghhhh!!!!!!!

That's too easy to guess - Pirate1

[Anastasius]

Not as bad as being incessantly being asked to accept cookies! If you're so damn smart to leave a cookie then why not leave one that says I've already told you ?

Thing is you really do have to go in each time and check the settings to avoid having all the third-party crud being stored and tracking you. Some websites are good and automatically disable those cookies but you till need t check as a lot pre-select the lot. Others are more cunning saying 'Manage Cookies' or 'Select All'...but often obfuscate the latter so that you think you are only choosing the ones you want.

And a much more sinister thing that I only discovered by chance is that these finance companies are being rather duplicitous and sharing information somehow. Please allow me to explain.

Our home insurance with Lloyds Bank is up for renewal. Buried in the small print is "if you're happy etc etc then we will take a usurious amount on 31/1/2021 from your card number ending in 1234". Now here's the thing. This is a new card since November. I have never used it to buy anything from Lloyds Bank. So how do they know that the number changed to 1234 ?

[Leinster Lass]

Not such a good idea. Score on password meter - http://www.passwordmeter.com/ is zero.

Just checked 2 of mine out of interest - 78% and 100%.

[Pulcinella]

Not as bad as being incessantly being asked to accept cookies! If you're so damn smart to leave a cookie then why not leave one that says I've already told you ?

Thing is you really do have to go in each time and check the settings to avoid having all the third-party crud being stored and tracking you. Some websites are good and automatically disable those cookies but you till need t check as a lot pre-select the lot. Others are more cunning saying 'Manage Cookies' or 'Select All'...but often obfuscate the latter so that you think you are only choosing the ones you want.

And a much more sinister thing that I only discovered by chance is that these finance companies are being rather duplicitous and sharing information somehow. Please allow me to explain.

Our home insurance with Lloyds Bank is up for renewal. Buried in the small print is "if you're happy etc etc then we will take a usurious amount on 31/1/2021 from your card number ending in 1234". Now here's the thing. This is a new card since November. I have never used it to buy anything from Lloyds Bank. So how do they know that the number changed to 1234 ?

If you have previously used your card and have set up an automatic renewal (rather like agreeing to a direct debit) I think that when a new card is issued details get passed on so that the next transaction doesn't fail. I might be naive, but I'd consider this a convenience rather than something sinister, especially as you got a message telling you about the payment that was going to be taken.

[Anastasius]

If you have previously used your card and have set up an automatic renewal (rather like agreeing to a direct debit) I think that when a new card is issued details get passed on so that the next transaction doesn't fail. I might be naive, but I'd consider this a convenience rather than something sinister, especially as you got a message telling you about the payment that was going to be taken.

That's plausible certainly were it not for the fact that some companies will try to take payment on the old card. Maybe there's one 'rule' for the finance companies and another 'rule' for other smaller companies. Or, more likely, the card companies will charge a premium to companies for this service !

[Dave2002]

Now another password annoyance today. One of our cars "wants" to do a software update. It can't connect to WiFi - though it has done so previously to the same access point. Fortunately though this probably doesn't affect the car in a major way, though someone we know had a major failure in an almost brand new car due to software. The previous car - a similar but "dumber" model went for about 15 years without problems so I hear, which compares favourably with the couple of months for the display in the new model to go wild. In fact the error turned out to be spurious due to poor software, but it wasn't encouraging to see messages such as "Stop immediately. Take the car directly to a service dealer" etc.