British Airways says my randomly-generated password is invalid

I attempted to create an account on britishairways.com today, but repeatedly failed, receiving the message “Error: The password you have supplied is invalid. Passwords need to be at least 6 characters in length and use a mix of letters (English A-Z) and numbers.” I tried the following passed.pw randomly generated passwords: awseecfejunknyZVWCNQPAVZUTE57264 nxmsgnkgqSYHXDPRJRRGGKKTHCE52872 edmzuszfecUVWSFHVCBHVBAV84822792 vdntgfssatdHMRPZNMWVPTVCBZA32444 …

404 for CostcoSetup at citi.com

American Express’ partnership with Costco is ending, starting on June 20, 2016. CostCo’s new partner will be a Visa from Citi.com. Today I received my new Citi card. The sticker on the card instructs the user to go to citi.com/CostcoSetup to activate the card. But when you visit the URL, you are presented the following …

Generate mobile-friendly passwords with passed.pw

Developer cxam recently updated https://passed.pw/ to generate passwords that are mobile keyboard friendly. Due to limited space, mobile keyboards have several levels of characters. the first level keyboard contains the alphabet and a few punctuation characters the second level keyboard contains numbers and frequently-used punctuation the third level keyboard contains infrequently-used punctuation Both iOS and …

Golden Cherry Casino SMS Text Spam

In the past month, I’ve begun receiving some SMS/Text Spam to my mobile phone. The five messages come from unique numbers, but all appear to want me to visit an online casino named Golden Cherry (or GoldenCherry). I’ve obscured the shortened goo.gl URL codes just in case they were unique to me (and would thus …

How ServerPilot and CloudFlare improve DigitalOcean

I was a Dreamhost customer for more than a decade before discovering DigitalOcean in 2014. Both offer virtual private servers to host one or more websites, but DigitalOcean offers better performance via an all SSD back-end and better pricing. Dreamhost‘s shared hosting plans cost $9/month. While DigitalOcean virtual private servers (1 vCPU, 512MB vRAM, and …