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Originally Posted by MikeFromHC
Which is why all they have to do is remember a simple personal question and apply a simple set of rules they make up.
If they can't do that then perhaps people who can should be hired.
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I don't know...in my experience, those who excel at memorizing tedious lists of oddball characters aren't necessarily those who excel at critical, analytical thinking. Like me, for example. In my last job, there were at least 10 different systems requiring 10 different passwords (each system had different password rules), and they had to be changed every 90 days, NOT on the same schedule. Worse yet, if you typed the wrong password 3 times, you were locked out, usually for several hours, and required a manual unlock by some guy in IT.
Of course, unless I was on a tight deadline, I didn't mind that much--I got paid by the hour, even when locked out and unable to do my job. I would guess that password problems cost this company far more than what they saved from any potential security threat that their policies may have prevented.
--Maria