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mjr00 • today at 2:39 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

This is a great point. If something is overly complex and arduous often times people will find a way to go "under the table" and do something in a way that accomplishes the goal but undermines the process.

The classic example is password rotation. It used to be standard to force users to rotate their passwords every 30/90 days, but that led to users having a sticky note on their monitor with their password on it, so security authorities no longer recommend this practice.


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rolosa • today at 3:20 PM

My work still forces password rotations. Everyone I know jokes about just changing the last character of their password each time, eg horse-staple-battery-1 to -2 to -3 etc.