Government Web Developers (long rant)

rickman · 2013-07-29T19:54:43+00:00

I have worked as a government contractor so I know how these things happen. You see something wrong and pass that info back upstream, but there are few incentive to actually make things work well, rather problems are considered,... well, problems. Not altogether different from commercial settings, except in that case the emphasis is on the bottom line, so there *is* an incentive to fix things that affect the bottom line. So I'm trying to use a government site to file paperwork (etherwork?) relating to international shipments. My extremely complex password is forgotten (not supposed to write them down right?) So I am going through the process of setting it up again which involves a fax, two phone calls (one to me which I didn't get and a return call) and an email. I have to be on the web site so they can tell me to push the buttons that have always been there, so I assume they didn't enable the recovery function until I called although it could have been done with the email, no? So before I get the second email with the activation code the person on the phone tells it to me and says I should write it down (not type it in), so I do. I enter it and get the next screen. When I tell her that, she is *off* the phone like wasps were chasing her. So now I have to type a new password and I realize why I couldn't get my usual passwords to work. I have a junk pw for junk yahoo accounts and the like, a moderate complexity pw for most "high" security sites (or anal ones that want to pretend they have decent security, but no one cares) and a highly complex pw for bank accounts and the like. Although you aren't supposed to use the same pw for multiple accounts, it is just too hard to do otherwise. So I'm on the government page and they want a password that is 12 chars long, not 11, not 13, 12 chars. It says it needs at least one alpha and at least one non-alpha character. It also needs 6 of those chars to not be repeated. The pw may not...

Jul 29, 2013 20 Replies

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josephkk 13 years ago

Ahem. Because it is convenient for them. BTW rape you customer!

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