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

From	kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Re: [Link Posting] Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords
Date	2019-06-11 21:12 -0400
Organization	Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Sylvia Else  <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>
>Why did this take so long? Why did so many people think it was a good 
>idea to force password changes?

I can answer that question: because NIST told them it was a good idea.

Now.... whatever made the NIST standards people ever think it was a 
good idea, that I cannot answer.
--scott
-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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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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