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Hate is back in fashion again. Tech is no exception when it comes to being the target of our anger and frustration -- but this stuff truly deserves it.
Passwords are a necessary evil in computer security -- and they require at least some level of complexity to be effective.
But we all know that website or corporate application that makes you change your password every 30 days, which has to be 10 characters long, mixed case, with at least one numeric and a non-alphanumeric character, and cannot have any characters or word combinations from your 10 last previous passwords.
Oh, and yeah, you need to do this for multiple sites, not just for one major authentication mechanism.
The guidelines for these passwords -- published in the National Institute of Standards -- have been around for 14 years. But the original creator of those standards, Bill Burr, now totally regrets writing those recommendations, because they cause more trouble than they are worth.
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