Comment by connicpu
2 days ago
Can confirm when I found out I'd be required to regularly change my password the security of it went down significantly. At my current job when I was a new employee I generated a secure random password and spent a week memorizing it. 6 months later when I found out I was required to change it, I reverted to a variation of the password I used to use for everything years ago with some extra characters at the end that I'll be rotating with each forced change...
I do the same but write the number at the end of the password on the laptop in sharpie. I work from home so I've been thinking about making a usb stick that simulates a keyboard with a button to enter the password.
Dangerous. You might accidentally press the button in a group chat.
They would then have an excuse to get one of those mission control button covers.
Why not make use of a password manager?
You can’t open the password manager until your computer is unlocked.
You can put the password manager on your phone or another device.
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I'm not pulling my phone out every time I have to unlock my computer at work. If IT wants my work account to be secure they should change their policies.
As discussed here, the policy is from outside the org.