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Originally Posted by meromana
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
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There was a recent study that said exactly this. That the number of hours spent on IT support, password resets, and associated costs, outweighed the insistence on strong, regularly changed passwords. Along with the risk that people sticky-note them to their monitors or whatever.