My Password
Groggy Morning! One of those days when I have to make my payment- It has to be groggy and dreadful morning! I try to pay for my credit card bill online. The moment I tried to key in my password, I see the red blinker "wrong password" ! No Not again!! My struggle with the new age security continues!
My problem is- first of all, finding or inventing a password which is seemingly secure. No I cannot simply type in "password" as my password! If I do that, a message blinks- "the password is very simple and easy to hack, use a password which has some capital letters, some alpha numeric (wonder what is that?) some symbols - blah blah!! By several permutation and combination I do finally create a password which is acceptable to the computer - Success! Similarly I create password for my demat account, my old bank (which has all of INR 10,000 in balance, password for my office account etc. (I thought I will create one password for all accounts but again the caveat- do not use the same password for two different accounts!!! Boy, why do they have to put all these caveats thinking that poor souls like us have all the money in the world- the reality is starkly contrasting!!!).
But, now I have another problem- remembering the damn passwords! No I cannot simply write it in my diary for there is a caveat with the password- "always store your password where it cannot be accessed easily" - so no diary! It is the digital age so I go the digital way - I store it in the digital locker in my mobile which has to be opened by guess what! another password!! Poor me!! I really cannot blame myself for forgetting this password. So now all my passwords are locked in a locker whose password I cannot remember!
Decision time !- I read somewhere that a man's mind is 1000 times more smarter than the best super computer, so I decide to trust my brain and remember all my passwords! But what my smart brain didn't comprehend was that it said " it is 1000 times more smarter" - it didn't say that it can remember 1000 times more than even the stupid tablet -forget the super computer! I try remembering it and think that I have remembered all the passwords. I try logging in to my office account - the darned message comes - "wrong password, try again". I try again- same result! Since it is already the last date of bill payment I keep trying! After the fifth unsuccessful attempt the accounts gets locked out! Now I try using my other account , the whole process gets repeated and the end result is the same - I get locked out of my own account! Very soon I have locked myself out of all my bank accounts and demat accounts!!!
Time for the next stage- I try creating a new password. The bank asks for all kinds of question just to make sure it is the right guy creating a new password...all the security will one day kill me! The question asks "who was your favourite teacher in school" . The funny thing is that I didn't really love any teacher ( with due to apologies to my teachers) for the simple fact that they asked all kind of difficult question which I could not answer. So I try putting all the names I could remember of my school teachers and at last in the 10th attempt, finally the bank accepts one name- now I remember she was the teacher who had stopped asking questions from me after I had slept in her class!
So finally the computer asks me to type in a new password. It also prompts "do not use the same password which you had used the last time" . So this is easy- I simply type in a password I had used to log in but could not since the password was wrong. After typing in and waiting for a few minutes (thanks to the slowest internet we have on the earth!) , a message comes in - "This is the same password you had used the last time, so use a new one!) This cannot be real!!! I am on the verge of crying now! The world as usual is conspiring against me!!!
I feel like smashing the laptop and then I stop myself- I don't have the password to make payment for a new laptop!
Guess I am not made for the new digital world!!
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