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	2019-06-15 15:46 -0400
Organization	Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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Sylvia Else  <sylvia@email.invalid> wrote:
>On 12/06/2019 11:14 am, Scott Dorsey wrote:
>> 
>> It is there to drive you away.  Just like the way the chairs at McDonalds
>> are designed to be uncomfortable.  They want you to sit and eat but they
>> don't want you to keep hanging around after you have eaten.  The whole
>> environment is designed to get you out so someone else can come in and
>> pay for food.  It improves profits.
>
>This may indeed be the thinking, but does it work? Was any experimenting 
>done, or did someone just suppose that it would have that effect, and 
>it's been in place ever since, annoying people for no useful purpose?

Yes, an extensive amount of testing is done.  McDonalds has a rather large
corporate organization devoted to researching this sort of stuff, and they
employ an awful lot of experimental psych people.

As an engineering undergraduate, I took an industrial and organizational
psychology class with an adjunct professor who turned out to be one of
the marketing guys at Coca-Cola.  It was very interesting.
--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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