I’ve not seen any studies that indicate this, but I can say as a recent iPhone user, I’ve found myself changing some of my passwords to not include symbols or capitals or anything that isn’t convenient to type on the default virtual keyboard. Does anyone else do this? Has there been any research on this? While the Palm Pre keyboard is a bit tiny (even for my dainty digits) I know it would be easier to access symbols or other non-qwerty characters than it is on the iPhone. I suspect the same issue affects the new myTouch G3 phones as well.
Any thoughts/experiences on this?
I have done the same, even worse I have my ‘strong’ password stored in my notes so I can copy & paste it. ouch!
That’s definitely the case for me. I also try not to use things that require a password. Most of the things I have that do require a password have an iPhone app.
Perhaps a sufficiently strong but easy to type on a small keyboard password would be a good compromise?
@Kerry – If only you could password protect the note that has the password in it – iPhone app idea?
My wife is in her first week of 30-day trial period on a Blackberry, and I fooled around with it this weekend. My passwords are randomly-generated strings, and I had a lot of mixed-case and punctuation and special characters to type when logging in to web sites. I’ve not used a virtual keyboard before, so I can’t comment on that, but it could easily get to be a pain – enough of a pain for most people to use weaker passwords. I noticed the Blackberry has a password keeper of some sort, and I wonder if it came about due to customer feedback.