Well, I joined communati. Hadn’t been a member for more than 9 minutes when I forgot my damn password.
No, I’m not senile, I just thought I would play around with my new RoboForm software by creating a wacky password. I managed to type it in and to confirm it but, by the time I had logged out and waited for dialup to deliver the logon page, the wacky password was a distant memory (was it 334X, 34X, 334xX, …, ?)
I learned two things and created one imponderable:
- Mark Whitbeck knows his stuff. The password reissue feature worked beautifully. It has a one-time use password and everything. I recommend you all forget your passwords once, just to see this in action!
- RoboForm or no RoboForm, you better type something you can remember! RoboForm only kicks in after you’ve logged out and logged back in. (It works on the first login so, technically, I could have kept dJbWkqahF6, but what’s the fun in that?)
- Why in the world do password updates require you to confirm? If programmers would dispense with the hidden text nonsense, we could see what we typed and would only have to type it once. Presumably, we could confirm it ourselves as we wrote it down on a Post-it note and stuck it on our monitors!
Hello, world. A big shout out to Sharon Hurley Hall for inviting me here!
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For even more geeky coverage of Roboform, check out my HubPage article:
RoboForm: Road Rules for the Real World