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One chestnut from my history in lottery game development:

While our security staff was incredibly tight and did a generally good job, oftentimes levels of paranoia were off the charts.

Once they went around hot gluing shut all of the "unnecessary" USB ports in our PCs under the premise of mitigating data theft via thumb drive, while ignoring that we were all Internet-connected and VPNs are a thing, also that every machine had a RW optical drive.

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[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Forcing password expiration does cause people to make shittier passwords. But when their passwords are breached programitically or through social engineering They don't just sit around valid for years on the dark web waiting for someone to buy them up.

[-] Cqrd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 year ago

This requirement forces people who can’t otherwise remember passwords to fall into patterns like (kid’s name)(season)(year), this is a very common password pattern for people who have to change passwords every 90 days or so. Breaching the password would expose the pattern and make it easy enough to guess based off of.

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

99% of password theft currently comes from phishing. Most of the people that get fished don't have a freaking clue they got fished oh look the Microsoft site link didn't work.

Complex passwords that never change don't mean s*** when your users are willing to put them into a website.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago

NIST now recommends watching for suspicious activity and only force rotation when there's risk of compromise

[-] linearchaos@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Tell me, can your users identify suspicious activity cuz mine sure as hell can't.

[-] Natanael@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

That's why password leak detection services exists

(And a rare few of them yes)

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