Yeah when I was a shipping clerk, we had a pile of usernames and passwords for the Census Bureau's Automated Export System on sticky notes next to the shared computer because the password rotation and complexity requirements made it impossible to remember our passwords.

Oh, there are many fun games from the 90's where you must infiltrate some place and every computer has some version of "due to the password rotation requirements, this week's password for the South-East door is 1-2-3-4, effective from Monday" pasted into it.

When the NIST added the bad rule into their ruleset (it was mostly a collection of bad rules at the time), it was already widely mocked in popular culture (well within the target population).

I now wonder if that ruleset (the original one, that basically mandated you copy every flaw on Windows NT) was honest.

> there are many fun games from the 90's where you must infiltrate some place and every computer has some [sticky note]

"Come to think of it, it's about time to replay Deus Ex again..."

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