• ridago@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    Regular password changes haven’t been recommended procedure for several years now. The only problem it solves is preventing people from using the same password everywhere, but since everyone just sticks a number at the end anyways it doesn’t actually protect against that either

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Exactly. The problem is that government policy is slow to change. So when the government has made it a required change every 90 days, that policy will stick around for decades even after the practice has fallen out of favor.