Monday, 16 May 2011

Sony PSN security and usability fail (After 15 May 2011)

Yes, this is not directly about the famous PSN hack, but rather some more comments on how their security and usability still suck.

<rant>
When I could finally log back on, I had to change my password with a link sent to my email address.  OK, this makes sense, as they could not trust their passwords anymore.  But why does my password have to look like this?


Your password must:
- contain at least eight characters
- contain at least one letter and one number
- not contain any character used more than two times in a row
- not match the sign-in ID

Which means that Pasword1 is valid, yet YouWillNeverGuessThisPassword*&%^$%#%^&^ is not?
Nor is oInYhgbYNCyhsdUBuo valid, or AnyPassPhraseThatHappensToRepeatACharacterSomewhere173 or AnyPasPhraseThatHapensToMisOutOnANumber.

Also, if you click on any menu item, and try to cancel, you need to confirm that you want to cancel.  The last time something this bad was invented was when you had to click on Start to Shut Down.
</rant>

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