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I need to talk to a UK Government department, so I have to create an account - despite my having an account with several other departments already (connected government, don't you just love it?)
so I give my email address, I move to the password box ... and Chrome automatically creates a random string password and suggest I can use that if I want, it will remember it for me so I don't have to.
Now, that's clever. Encouraging the use of string passwords and "not writing them down on a post it". And since this is Chrome, it'll almost certainly work automatically on the WookieTab as well ... 
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How do you know the "random text" it is creating isn't just "password"?
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Because it shows you what it is so you can write it down if you feel the need.
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Half a KeePass, and not functionality I'd want in a browser.
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Just wait for version 2 when it starts suggesting passwords that you commonly use on other sites...
"Would you like to use your standard 'pasword123' password?"
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Er, no, this isnt spam, it is me, OK?
--edit--
Test message after on in Bugs and Suggestions got marked as spam.
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I've let the B&S one through.
It's possible that the spam detector has read enough posts by M_M to assume everything about him is not worth publishing ... 
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Ah, so anything not nerdy is spam?
OK, gotcha.... 
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You know what I mean, oh hungry one!
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I'd still rather use KeePass. IMO, having a password manager run within the same process space as a browser just seems to me like the worst combination possible. It suggests you're always just one buffer overflow away from having keys becoming accessible to those you'd rather not share them with.
That said, I'm no security expert. But it's always seemed to me like integrating the two is simply removing an important barrier for the sake of convenience (and convenience always works against security).
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I know what you mean, but ... Chrome isn't allowed near my important passwords (bank, paypal, etc.) but I do let Chrome sort out the myriad of shops and so forth that require a login (Fleabay, Amazon, ...) but need a separate password to actually pay for something.
This means that Average Joe can use different, strong, passwords for each site he signs up to without writing them down in a book beside the computer or using the same one for all sites (which is horrific when you think about it).
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I've had it.
From now on, any page that presents me with a recaptcha "puzzle" will be immediately closed.
Are those two fuzzy pixels in the far distance a bus? Click the square and they're not? FAIL. Don't click and they are? FAIL. Either way, start again.
Sorry, but I don't access the Internet to play stupid, waste-of-precious-time guessing games, so if your site uses recaptcha, I don't use your site.
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is that a storefront? ...sure it is, that's a read light on the outside
... fail
where's the complaints dept when the recapture is wrong?
fill in "contact us" form
... click send
... please prove you are human, chose all squares with cars
... hey look, it's my old mate Bob Car ... <click>
... fail
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I don't mind the ones which tell you "Tick the box marked 'I am human, honest'"
But the picture ones are a PITA - is that bit of a traffic light relevant? Is that a motorcycle or a dog?
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Basically they measure age. 
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If you want to measure age, that's easy: show 'em a picture of an 8-track cartridge and see if they can identify it.
(Does not work in Alabama)
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What you talkin bout Griffis?
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They were invented shortly after this: Victorian MP3 player[^].
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Looks shameless self-promotion, posting the Griffophone, such well known invention of yours.
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Nah, the Griffophone was two tins and a piece of string!
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OriginalGriff wrote: Nah, the Griffophone was two tins and a piece of string!
And it still had better apps than the windows phone.
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You should be getting 8-track in Italia at about the same time as you get real toilets, rather than holes in the floor :P
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We had toilets and roads and all of that well before you had. As matter of fact we brought civilization to you.
Veni vidi vici, you know.
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My bank has just transitioned to a system that uses a recaptcha.
And full-screen animated video in some backgrounds.
The previous site looked like something that was written in 1997 (and probably was). But it worked and I knew my way around.
I gave in after a few months of the old site insisting I migrate over, no less than 4 times before the login was completed.
But hey, I'm sure it now works great on tablets. Which I'll never use with a banking site since none of my Android tablets have ever seen a single OS update, which means they're still susceptible to vulnerabilities that have been patched everywhere else half a decade ago.
"Progress".
modified 22-Nov-18 12:56pm.
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Apart from the fact that the "answers" are completely ridiculous, there's clearly an accessibility issue here for those with eye problems.
They should be made to record an audio commentary for all of them:
"Spot the road-signs"
"There is a picture with lots of road-signs. Square A1 clearly contains a road-sign, there is a 50% chance that you should select this square.
Square A2 looks like a bunch of clouds, this only has a 30% chance of being a correct selection.
Square A3 shows more clouds, select this square if you didn't select the previous one.
Square B1 shows the post holding up the sign in A1. Have a philosophical debate about whether or not a sign-post is part of a sign, base your decision upon the result of that and then reverse it.
For those who have yet to lose the will to live, square B2 is something of a mystery. I mean that could well be a sign-post in the distance but equally it could be a banana or a goldfish, Chrome really hasn't rendered it terribly well. Probably best to toss a coin for this one.
Square B3 - now that really does look like a "stop" sign - hold on, that's got to be a trap, don't select that one whatever you do!
etc., etc."
Alternatively, you could take Mark's advice and boycott every crappy site that uses Repratcha. Yeah, I'm preferring that one!
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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