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		<title>Web unusability.</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A certain vendor has a support site that I need to use once every blue moon. So when I need to use it, it inevitably decides that my password is old, and needs resetting. So the first thing I need to do is reset it. Here&#8217;s the list of rules of acceptable password rules. * [...]<p><a href="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/2009/01/08/web-unusability/">Web unusability.</a> is a post from: <a href="http://www.codemonkey.org.uk">codemonkey.org.uk</a></p>



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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A certain vendor has a support site that I need to use once every blue moon. So when I need to use it, it inevitably decides that my password is old, and needs resetting.</p>
<p>So the first thing I need to do is reset it. Here&#8217;s the list of rules of acceptable password rules.</p>
<blockquote><p>
    *  The password must be at least eight characters long, and can contain letters, numbers, and punctuation.<br />
    * It must not exceed fourteen (14) characters.<br />
    * It must contain at least one alpha character [a-z; A-Z].<br />
    * It cannot contain spaces.<br />
    * The password cannot be the same as any of your previous eight (8) passwords.<br />
    * It cannot contain your login id.<br />
    * It may not contain any of the following special characters: Asterisk (*) Comma (,) Backslash ( /) Forward Slash (\).
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<p>Then, after a dozen attempts to pick something that it&#8217;ll like, I pass the hurdle to get to play the next game..</p>
<blockquote><p>
&#8220;You are attempting to access [REDACTED] Premier Support but you do not have a user account.</p>
<p>If you continue to have problems, please contact [REDACTED] Customer Support.&#8221;
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<p>Excuse me? Despite having just set a password, I don&#8217;t have a user account? So what did I set the password on?</p>
<p>This, is what fail looks like. And it fails harder every single time I have to use this &#8216;service&#8217;. Hate.</p>
<p><b>update:</b><br />
It gets better.  So I sent a nastygram to the support email address explaining just how utterly unusable their site was.  They sent me back an email, containing a password for no obvious reason.</p>
<p>Thinking &#8220;perhaps they&#8217;ve reset the account or something&#8221;, I tried to log in with it.</p>
<blockquote><p>
Your session has timed out. For security reasons, if there has been no activity for an extended period of time, you will be required to login again. Thank you.
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<p>This is awesome, because I NEVER GOT TO LOG IN.</p>
<p>FFS. It&#8217;s like a success story from <a href="http://www.uncov.com">uncov</a>.</p>
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