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  • SSTF@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately a lot of jobs require passwords and they use outdated security processes, forcing people to have the old fashioned “must have uppercase, lowercase, number, and special character & you have to change it every 3 months for no reason” passwords instead of the stronger (and less annoying) alternatives.

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      1 year ago

      i signed up at mba.com and it wouldn’t let me use a password because it contained a semicolon which wasn’t on the approved list of special characters, and then - get this - because I tried too many times to create a password - locked me out because I had “too many failed attempts”

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      Those requirements drive me crazy, especially because they’re all against NIST recommendations. Someone thinks they make passwords more secure but they have the opposite effect.

      At any rate, password managers still help in those cases. If nothing else, for providing a safe place to record what your password is for when you forget it because of the dumb requirements.

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        1 year ago

        I always wonder if such choices come from incompetent IT, or if IT wants to do things better but is banging their heads against corporate owners who think “more hassle = more secure”.

        • peto (he/him)@lemm.ee
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          It’s almost certainly that writing security standards for an organization takes time and needs approval from high up. And someone high up complaining that they only just revised them to include special characters.

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      Must be changed every month, can’t use a previous password, AND, for some fucking reason, can only contain 8 characters.

      And if you forgot your password, you can call IT and they’ll just read it to you because they have them all saved somewhere.

      That was a great place to work at.

    • darkkite@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      that’s exactly why a password manager works. there’s a generator that you can configure to meet requirements