Stupid windows password screen!

[LondonManc]

Is that actually too insecure though? If someone has to physically steal it from your desk... and only people who work there know that's what you do?

Asked the retired cleaner from Talktalk

[unixman]

Lol.

At BT on NHS Spine once, Windows team got it in the neck for weak passwords, so they issued us with 24 character ones, no dictionary words, upper/lowercase, numbers and punctuation.

Was no problem though since we all had them on post-it's under our keyboards. So much for security........

[BigRed]

Bit different at work where you can simply keep a password-protected spreadsheet and just need to remember the one password if SSO is not implemented.

I think it's improved now, but there were macros available which would crack excel passwords in a couple of minutes. I used to use one to crack all those quizzes with protected sheets/cells