Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 months

Re:Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 ... by vaksel on Thursday March 19, 2009 @10:09AM (#523295)

This is stupid as hell, if someone steals your password they'll go and exploit it right away. They won't wait a few months or even days.

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Re:Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 ... by josefresco on Thursday March 19, 2009 @01:31PM (#523651)

I think this is less about hackers and more about forcing people to be more responsible with their record keeping.

I deal with business owners daily who have no idea who their domain is with, let alone their username or password. At least this will force them to touch their domain at least once/year.

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Re:Godaddy now requires you to change your password every 6 ... by jasonkester on Thursday March 19, 2009 @05:17PM (#524013)

Not quite. It will force them to go through the password recovery process every time they want to access their account.

Security policies like this make things worse, not better. The only way most people know to remember a password that changes regularly is to email it to themselves or post-it it to their monitor.

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