Pet peeve: Idiotic rules placed on passwords. Current example: brightidea.com.
"Password must contain at least one upper case character"
"Password must contain at least one symbol (!#$%&()*+,-/?@{|}~)"
They make it maximally irritating by not telling you these rules until you violate them. So you type a password. Twice, of course.
They balk and you type a new one. Twice.
They balk again. You have typed the damn thing six times now.
Oh, wait, the rules are there. There are five rules!! Gray on gray -- way over to the right, not near where you enter passwords and only when you click on the password box:
And it even contains a typo.
This is not the stupidest. That award goes to the morons in IT at Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Texas for the restriction that no password can contain the first three letters of any month!
IT people everywhere, please: We know you were the smallest one the playground and you never got your way. We know you like being in control. But your customers have hundreds of passwords and why should they need to have a separate Post-It with your site's password just because you think you're wiser than any banking or securities site and you have such smart rules for how to make a "stong" password.
Stop being an idiot.
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