If you make the system secure but unusable, the users will find a way to make it usable but insecure.
Re:Sites with dumb password rules
by heavenlyblue on Saturday September 07, 2019 @12:46PM
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But changing the password every month doesn’t make it any more secure.
Passwords don’t really have an expiration date if they are secure (as in long enough and not reused) in the first place.
It satisfied the uppercase, lowercase, number, symbol, and non-reuse criteria perfectly, while having precisely zero security.
Come to find out, something like a dozen different contractors were all sharing this one guy's login. He was the only reason anything got done in the whole region. The "system", such as it was, worked, but it made a mockery of corporate IT.
A few months into the project, that employee gave his notice and quit. Went to work for the competitor across the street; we'd bump into each other at the diner and stuff. But they couldn't just turn off his login -- his manager understood that all the contractors were using it, so they just left it active, and whoever got the expiry prompt would dutifully update the password every month...