Electric heater plug just exploded - what would have caused that?

[JohnW2]

Don't bank on it. On those ocassions I find myself trying to gain access to something - usually a lighting control desk, radio programming software etc - password is more common than 1234 or 0000.

I'm certainly not banking on it - as I said, I have no idea about how true are the things I've heard being said - although I do believe that a very substantial proportion of people would not now use "password" because of the the advice not to do that.

I am personally far less cautious about passwords than I should be (and certainly use some for multiple purposes) but, for what it's worth, have never even considered using "password"

 

[SUNRAY]

I'm certainly not banking on it - as I said, I have no idea about how true are the things I've heard being said - although I do believe that a very substantial proportion of people would not now use "password" because of the the advice not to do that.

I am personally far less cautious about passwords than I should be (and certainly use some for multiple purposes) but, for what it's worth, have never even considered using "password"

The thing is many accesses to a system are by a system admin who will input your name and a notional 'password' with the instruction to change it immediately on first use. The same thing it true for some software as I mentioned above. Many people didn't bother.

When working for BT it was like that but the change of password was forced on first use then every month with no return to used passwords. However the forgotten password system was a call to admin in which case they'd do a full reset including the count and supply a new password to start again. was reset by admin.