49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same one with minor change

Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by wolco on Friday December 13, 2019 @01:34PM (#21784086)

They can they just have to wait.

At my previous role I added a number and kept increasing until it accepted the orginal password and I started the cycle again.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by Sylamore on Friday December 13, 2019 @06:07PM (#21786452)

Because of minimum age rules, I just spell out the number if I can't recycle the old password yet.

One of the reasons I don't do IT security any more is the attachment to old dogma like these kinds of password rules by auditors - they are the real barrier to making policies more effective.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by 52-6F-62 on Friday December 13, 2019 @03:18PM (#21785025)

I've done something similar with a role but alphabetical.

A-Z, then AA-ZZ, AB-ZA and so on.

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Re:49% of workers, forced to change passwords, reuse same on... by klyrs on Friday December 13, 2019 @09:40PM (#21787428)

I never wrote my password on a post-it on my screen. The post-it had tallies of the number of times I'd incremented the number at the start, and the number at the end.

And I worked on my IT department, and then went over their heads, until they got smart about password expiration.

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