{"id":13222,"date":"2011-04-11T14:24:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/?p=13222"},"modified":"2011-04-11T14:24:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-11T19:24:08","slug":"thats-the-same-combination-i-have-on-my-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/2011\/04\/thats-the-same-combination-i-have-on-my-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"That&#8217;s the Same Combination I Have on My Luggage!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-688\" title=\"Chains\" src=\"http:\/\/law.marquette.edu\/facultyblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/993898_chains_150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/>Quick, which service do you think has the most strict password requirements I&#8217;ve ever encountered? My bank? Mutual funds? My law firm network login? Credit cards? Paypal? Email providers? Configuring my home server for remote access? Electronics sites like newegg.com and amazon.com? Westlaw and Lexis?<\/p>\n<p>No. Not any of those. There is a service that, judging by its password requirements, contains either information far more sensitive or capabilities far more powerful than any of these. It&#8217;s&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/eco\/\">Electronic Copyright Office<\/a>, or eCO. eCO allows you to, <em>get this<\/em>, register copyright claims. So naturally, a power that awesome must be adequately protected from <a title=\"Untouchables quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hark.com\/clips\/fnxtqvgtjc-who-would-claim-to-be-that-who-was-not\">dopplegangers posing as registered users<\/a>, through the use of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/eco\/help-password-userid.html#passwd\">rigorous password restrictions<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Each person using the Electronic Copyright Office System, eCO, must  comply with the following:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Minimum  password length must be 8 characters and consist of at  least 2 alpha  characters, 1 number and <strong>1 special character (but not an  ampersand &#8211; &amp;)<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A password must have <strong>no consecutive repeated       characters<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not include your user name or       any part thereof.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not include the names of a       spouse, children, pets or one&#8217;s own name.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not include any regional       sports teams or players.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not include any office symbols.<\/li>\n<li>A  password must not include your social security number or any  subset of  your social security number that is more than a single  number.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not include words that can be       found in any dictionary, whether English or any language.<\/li>\n<li><strong>A password must not be any of the 11 most       recently used passwords for the account.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Every  user with an account on a Library of Congress system  including eCO is  responsible for safeguarding access to that account.<\/li>\n<li>A password must not ever be shared with       anyone.<\/li>\n<li>An account owner can change his or her       password at any time, but at a maximum of once per day.<\/li>\n<li><strong>An account owner must change his or her       password when prompted by the system.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve highlighted a few of the requirements that make registering with eCO particularly challenging. Think of the passwords you use the most often. How many of them meet all of these requirements? Are you <em>sure <\/em>there are no repeated characters? If you guess wrong, you must wait for the system to think about it, and then fill out the entire registration form again. And again. And again. I think it took me at least five minutes to register an account.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yeah, and once you&#8217;ve got one good password, you only need <em>eleven more<\/em> to make it through the forced rotation.<\/p>\n<p>(And yes, in case you&#8217;re wondering, the reason why I&#8217;ve recently stumbled upon this is that I&#8217;ve registered <a href=\"http:\/\/ssrn.com\/author=533097\">my most recent articles<\/a>. Practice what you preach, and all that.)<\/p>\n<p>Cross-posted at <a href=\"http:\/\/madisonian.net\/2011\/04\/11\/thats-the-same-combination-i-have-on-my-luggage\">Madisonian.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick, which service do you think has the most strict password requirements I&#8217;ve ever encountered? My bank? Mutual funds? My law firm network login? Credit cards? Paypal? Email providers? Configuring my home server for remote access? Electronics sites like newegg.com and amazon.com? Westlaw and Lexis? No. Not any of those. 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