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Changing passwords often

clem57

     I used to work at a bank (leaving name out for now) where we had to change the password every month. Not only that, we could not reuse the same password twice in a year. I had over 100 systems to change. Needless to say, I worked out a convenient yet obscure way to generate my passwords in 8 characters or numbers. After a time the routine was not bad and made secure knowing I had done good. BTW, never use your name or birthday. So go and do it.

 

Clem

  • I work for an organisation that makes you change every 30 days as well. They seem to record the hashes (and prevent the reuse of) at least the last 10 passwords. Sometimes I feel these measures, together with excessive password complexity policies, can be quite counterproductive. Especially in offices with an abundance of post-it notes.