Saturday, July 5, 2008

Access Blues

Imagine a situation, when you are locked out of your own appartment(misplacement of keys) and people around you percieve you as an intruder, trying to break into the house with some vicious motives. Let's make a slight alteration in the above hypothetical situation..replace appartement with your computer system..Geez..even the thought of it gives a spate of jitters to me. "Your password has been expired and needs to be changed" is a message that is no longer uncommon to those who work like a Trojan to make sure that their employer's coffers never run out of moolah. "Expired"..what? My Password..Since when did passwords have their own respiratory system. I believe I brought them into existence, when one fine day I was presented with moi brand new "Login ID" and I had never thought in moi wildest of dreams that a day will come when moi self-invented password, with one special character, one numerical character and a string character in Large Caps, would cease to be..Gosh..What an affront this is to an innovation? Damn those ID nerds who get away with this act of genocide citing reasons as "Information Security", "Best interest of the Company"...
To make things worse, "Your ID and Password has been revoked" is one message that can take smiles away from your faces. You are denied access to your own computer system. The ignominy is unbearable. It feels as if one has been chucked out the mansion where he has been putting up since time immemorial. Perhaps You have lost the keys. So what? You can get a new one, the same one, SO WHY CAN'T PASSWORD?

1 comment:

Gaurav said...

i guess we are in the transition state from 'Man made Machines" to "Machines Maketh a Man"