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Re:The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and ... by gregmac on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:04PM (#10694718)
I have seen passwords like "Fall2013!". Bet you can't guess how often they had to change their password.. or what this user's current password is....

But yes, IT admins, go on thinking if you just finely craft and tune your password policy enough you'll make users come up with secure passwords.

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Re:The assault on neurosurgeons’ privileges by software and ... by numbsafari on Monday December 07, 2015 @11:09PM (#10694738)
... when the policy is to change your password every quarter, and include a mix of case and punctuation, the policy is to use the season, the year, and an exclamation point.

I worked at a place where you could log in to just about anyone's account because our managers literally told us to take this approach so that we'd be less likely to forget what our password was.

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