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submitted 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/cybersecuritymemes

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This practice is not recommended anymore, yet still found in many enterprises.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Password1

Password2

Password...

Password28

Password29

Edit: Call IT to reset password costing the company money because of their idiotic password policy

Password...

Password43

[–] wreckedcarzz 8 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

No joke, my father used to have to do this. I set him up with a solid pw via pw mgr and then we found out that it had to be changed every 60d. He was going to just generate a new one but I was concerned that he'd screw it up and need help resetting the pw every time, so I was like "...just had 1 to the end, and do the same in the mgr; next time 2, then 3...".

He got to like 8 before (it appears, he stopped complaining about it) they dropped the policy. I just know that every other employee (these are not tech positions whatsoever) just resorted to "password1" and IT realized how fucking stupid that is.

Oh and it retains your last like 5 passwords, so you can't do "password1" "password2" "password1". Brilliant.