Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by jagger27 on Monday June 14, 2021 @10:57AM
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There have been times that I’ve had to close my eyes and completely rely on muscle memory to enter a long password. Last time it happened was after a 2 week vacation.
That kind of timeframe isn’t abnormal for the speed of law.
Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by spentu on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:40AM
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This happens to me a lot. I need to have access to keyboard for being able to type some older password. Same thing with pin codes.. Funny how brain works.
Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by tediousdemise on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:21AM
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Impressive! After all these years I still need to look at the keyboard.
Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by jagger27 on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:23AM
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I find it somewhat disconcerting that my fingers remember my passwords better than my brain does!
Re:Irish police to be given powers over passwords
by dkersten on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:49AM
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Muscle memory still happens in the brain. A better description might be unconscious memory. I believe the proper term is "procedural memory". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procedural_memory
I have some long passwords that I keep out of password managers for private stuff that I don't want to be leaked from a password manager leak or w/e. I can remember them, but had a really hard time remembering even the start of most of them after not using them for a few weeks.