We’re on the verge of making big password changes at work for our system. Going forward, all passwords will need to have three of the following items:

A capital letter
A lower case letter
A number
A special symbol (*, &, $, etc)

This is going to cause huge issues, because most of our users are…well, not technical people. They can’t even remember the simple passwords they’re choosing now, so when we break the news to them that their passwords have to change - well, people are going to be bent.

It’s for a good reason though - people often use the same password on every single site they belong to or register at, which makes it super easy for hackers to crack one account…and then every single account that person has online. Could you imagine if someone hacked into your blog, and then was able to do the same to your online banking, simply because you used the same password for both sites? Scary, huh?