What are some of the dumbest things you try, when you password isn't working?
What are some of the dumbest things you try, when you password isn't working?
For me for instance it is to type it in with a rhythm or only with my middle fingers.
In the bad days before password managers there was a password I could only type... I knew the rhythm but had totally forgotten the actual password...
Couldn't remember the passcode of my phone a few years ago and I had been using this passcode for quite a while. I guess I only really remembered it through muscle memory and that somehow went away.
I didn't recover the muscle memory for the whole day so I decided to reset my phone and restore from backup, setting a new passcode. The next day I tried to unlock my phone and out of habit typed in my old passcode (that obviously no longer unlocked my phone), had a big AHA moment and that was that.
Relying on muscle memory is not a great idea, mine left me for a good 24 hours before suddenly coming back.
I have a few passcodes/passphrases like this but nowadays I store them in a password manager as well, just in case my muscle memory lets me down again.
...and then you sit down one key left to the left of normal.
jimyrt3
I try the same password and expect a different result.
When in doubt *******
What's hunter2?
Shit.
Pray.
I try yours
I try to remove the extra comma.
I couldn't get into my laptop that I hadn't used in half a year. I couldn't remember the password so I ended up just wiping it and starting over.
If it's a password where I need to manually type like a PC login, I slowtype to make sure each character is pressed. I typically type fast so i might mistype at times.
if the password is registered to my password manager, sync up all the clients. If the password still doesn't work, there's something very wrong. This actually happened once, and I thought my database was compromised at first. Thankfully it was just EA being awful with their account security. Couldn't recover that account but I'm never touching any of their games if they can't keep user accounts safe anyways.
Playing videogames "for ten minutes" to give myself a break from frustration.
That's not dumb at all
Isn't it? How often would you guess it works for me?
2345meia78 (which is a refference to a Brazilian song of the same name)
Fun story woke up one day was pretty out of it because morning brain. I went to check my phone and it required password to unlock Face ID (Apple lies about iPhones not randomly restarting) well my tired brain thought this one thing was for sure my password (it wasn’t) and I grew more and more annoyed and then I got locked out for more and more time. It got to the point where I was gonna brute force it with some Program or another (dumb idea I know) finally I sanity checked myself and got back in.
So how do I do it? Accuse it of lying about that not being my password type in the “same” password again and then it works