Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords

From	Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords
Date	2019-06-11 09:39 +0000
Organization	Piglet's Pickles & Preserves
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On 2019-06-11, Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
> On 3/06/2019 7:55 am, Rich wrote:
>>        ####################################################################
>>        # ATTENTION: This post is a reference to a website.  The poster of #
>>        # this Usenet article is not the author of the referenced website. #
>>        ####################################################################
>> 
>> <URL:https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/02/password-expiration-is-dead-long-
>> live-your-passwords/>
>> 
>> The text below is a quotation from the URL above:
>>>
>>>   May was a momentous month, which marked a victory for sanity and
>>>   pragmatism over irrational paranoia. I'm obviously not talking about
>>>   politics. I'm talking about Microsoft finally - finally! but credit to
>>>   them for doing this nonetheless! - removing the password expiration
>>>   policies from their Windows 10 security baseline.
>>>
>>>   Although NIST and others precede this and deserve that credit, I think
>>>   it's worth taking a moment to recognize this moment in time as truly a
>>>   fundamental change in the industry.
>>>
>>>   - SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) May 31, 2019
>>>
>>>   Many enterprise-scale organizations (including TechCrunch's owner
>>>   Verizon) require their users to change their passwords regularly. This
>>>   is a spectacularly counterproductive policy.
>>>
>>>   ...
>
> Why did this take so long? Why did so many people think it was a good 
> idea to force password changes?

Having spent many, many fruitless hours in shouty meetings with management,
trying to convince them that password changes are a stupid idea, the only
conclusion I can come to is that it's a religious matter.

-- 
Today is Boomtime, the 16th day of Confusion in the YOLD 3185
                  Rising above bedlam

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[Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-02 21:55 +0000
  Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-03 20:28 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-03 20:35 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-06-09 09:10 -0400
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-09 14:22 +0100
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-09 14:39 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-09 20:33 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) - 2019-06-10 11:22 -0500
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-06-10 11:42 -0500
          Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-10 18:05 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-06-10 22:28 +0100
  Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 16:42 +1000
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 09:39 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 20:29 +1000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 11:01 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-11 17:18 -0300
            Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-12 00:04 +0000
              Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-12 01:49 -0300
              Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:49 +0000
            Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:57 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jim Jackson <jj@franjam.org.uk> - 2019-06-11 17:57 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-11 18:05 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 21:08 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Jerry Peters <jerry@example.invalid> - 2019-06-12 00:10 +0000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:50 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-06-11 11:03 +0000
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-11 21:55 +1000
        Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 15:30 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2019-06-11 17:43 -0300
            Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your  passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:58 +0000
          Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-11 21:14 -0400
            Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-12 08:52 +0000
            Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2019-06-15 11:45 +1000
              Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-15 15:46 -0400
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Kerry Imming <kcimming@pobox.com> - 2019-06-11 12:19 -0500
      Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-06-11 18:21 +0000
    Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-06-11 21:12 -0400

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