This is a password: qwO8agRHfC8fqeikkPLM and so is this m}8C@uS<{MNUL0tArE(c
I like good passwords and have been saying so for a few years now. Just about all my passwords are like the above. On the computer I have a program to remember them so I don’t care how complex they are. Earlier I tried signing in to Twitter on the Xbox. It hides the characters and because I don’t want to find a keyboard, unplug. plug, type and remove it I have to use a nasty onscreen keyboard. I got that fed up with errors I changed the password. Could Microsoft have let me login from the computer? Yes. Does it help password security when the Xbox screen says that if you cannot input the right characters to go to Twitter and change the password there? No. Should a billion dollar company be able to make it easier for users? Yes. But do they care? No.
Why do companies bang on about users and passwords when some of the biggest actually behave in a way that almost ensures a user will just go for the ‘easy to remember’ rather than ‘I value my identity’?
Romantic Robot
but to you I'm just cold steel.
For most things, I’d agree with you. But twitter is, or started as, primarily a mobile service – logging in via phone keyboard with a password like that would be similarly impossible.
security and memorability don’t have to be mutually exclusive.
Maybe twitter was the wrong one to pick. It’s the same for any service you can use on a mobile be that Gmail, Live, Yahoo, flickr uploading and even a blog.