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Re:Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient an... by Aeolun on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:15PM (#26869313)
My first password is always secure. The second one less so, but by the third time you make me change my password it turns into easily predictable dictionary words.
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Re:Microsoft says mandatory password changing is “ancient an... by p_l on Monday April 19, 2021 @08:50PM (#26869546)
A former coworker of mine used to track how long he was working with certain client by the amount of dots after their actual password.

I simply disabled password rotation policy on my account ノ(ジ)ー'

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