Why we love last-millennium password policies
IT pilot fish goes to work at a large retailer's distribution center, where the policy is that passwords must be changed every 90 days.
"Once I got settled into my office, I set up my phone to connect to the corporate Wi-Fi," fish says. "I couldn't do much on my phone except get and send emails while connected to the Wi-Fi.
"Nearing my first 90 days, I got the notification in Windows to change my password. I did so with no problems...at first.
"After about 30 minutes, my computer locked up and told me I was disabled. I had to have co-workers re-enable me, but it kept happening every 30 minutes or so. I tried changing my password again and had corporate's computer operations look into it -- they couldn't find anything other than that my password would fail three times according to the log.
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