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[The New Stack] Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk (archive.ph)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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OP: https://thenewstack.io/feds-critical-software-must-drop-c-c-by-2026-or-face-risk/

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Meanwhile Dave from Accounting has password123 written on a post-it on the monitor.

[–] eager_eagle 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

and only because the system forces users to renew passwords every year and this is his third year

[–] AbidanYre 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Year? It's like 90 days most places.

[–] eager_eagle 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

the least I've seen was 6 months. If I had to change passwords every 90 days I'd spam them with articles showing this is idiotic every month.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

Quarterly is very common. It’s absurd.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yet I have done, it doesn't work. Because what do I know? I only work in cyber security it's only my job. I'm sure Bernard the C-Suite middle manager knows better, pay no attention to all the ask toolbars he has installed.

[–] BigTrout75 11 points 3 weeks ago

I asked him to not do that and the sticky note is now under his keyboard.