Grule policy

My old job had that policy. I decided I would not try to remember my passwords. Instead I had I.T. on speed dial and I would just call them daily to change my password to the one I liked. They hated me. I don’t work there anymore. For unrelated reasons. I think.

I wish I only had to change my passwords every 90 days. That would be a dream.

I'll just have to refer to the unofficial password sticky note that everyone in the office shares containing all the usernames and passwords, and the date on which they were last changed, that was started less than a week after the password change policy.

It's hilariously insecure, but we just can't deal with the password load. It's too much work. We'd sooner be fired if we had to comply with the password policy.

I'm very glad that my company took the note and only require a password change once a year

And that's how you get rules put in place to not use a password that's similar to your old passwords. (I don't agree with such rules, just to be completely clear)

If you are forced to use long passwords, use book titles, song titles, character names, album names, TV show names, etc etc.

Examples: WutheringHeights$!5, ThePrisonerOfAzkaban:29, TheCountOfMonteChristo33&&

Of course you can put the numbers and symbols anywhere, not just at the end.

My company tried disabled Windows Hello/pin for some people. Which means you have to use your main Microsoft password to unlock your computer.

Which means people are going to leave their laptops unlocked or (more likely and) use a simpler password for their main account..

Such a baffling decision. They reversed course on it though. I think..