Apparently World Password Day is a thing…or so Social Media tells me. I, being bored and up with WildOne3 decided to turn to my dear friend Dr Google* as to why that is…I did assume it was a way of telling me and all my fellow absentminded numpties who don’t follow the secure password rules properly, that we really should change from the [streetname][yearofbirth] password we use for everything to something with 24 different characters that must include two uppercase, three lower case, eight numbers, six punctuation marks and the sweat and tears and sinking heartache you feel knowing that forever more you will have to hit “forgot passed” link everytime you need to use you Asda rewards account**.

Dr. Google tells me that in 2005 some clever bod*** first started encouraging people to keep a password day where they update all their passwords. Inspired by this idea, Intel Security designated the first Thursday in May “World Password Day” in 2013

I don’t do this. My password has changed since 2005 and 2013 on most things…its probably still the same on something now I think about it. I also never know what my password is if it differs too much from my form password… thankfully Google knows all my passwords 🤔, usually anyway. I don’t think I’d manage without its Password Keeper.

What does make me laugh is when simple sites and accounts that don’t really have much information or card details require far more in-depth passwords then say my back or online shopping accounts.

Well swear rather than laugh if I’m honest…I don’t care if my basic form password appears on 367 lists on the internet, if someone wants to break into my account to play solitaire online, it’s not going to kill me…does feel strange that my bank doesn’t seem to run these checks…or the DWP.

*Other search engines are available. Everyone I know uses Google but theres the disclaimer/reminder

**other shopping accounts are available…Asda is just the one that sprung to mind as the latest I could not access because the password was incorrect

*** Mark Burnett, a security researcher