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Archive for August 27th, 2008
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27
My internet is bouncing up and down like a yoyo and it’s not fair because I just want to post this and go to sleep. And it’s not long! Amusing thing of the day:
This bloke wants to use ‘Lloyds is pants’ as his banking password (Yes Lloyds TSB is the bank of choice) and an ‘enterprising’ customer service advisor changed it to ‘No its not’. When the guy complained he was told he could change it but not to the pants comment or even his second choice ‘Lloyds is rubbish’ or the third ‘Barclays is better’ (the correct answer to that is ‘No its not’). It had to be one word (so he chose ‘censorship’) but that wasn’t it either – it had to be no more than six letters.
What kind of rubbish password is that? When most websites recommend no less than 8 letters and a capital letter in there somewhere and a mixture of letters and numbers – but over the phone it’s a one word six letter password?!
Customers of Lloyds! Leave! Now! Run for the hills!
Except for your current one (obviously) has anyone used any amusing passwords in the past and had trouble with them? I, for one, remember being told I couldn’t have Algernon (which was the name of my imaginary dragon friend as a kid) because they weren’t allowed to take made up words. Yes. I left that bank.
