On Sat, 24 May 2014 16:08:14 -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:

> (Charles Mills) writes:
>>
>> 1. There is a fallacy that I see a lot, particularly in public policy, that
>> goes something like this: Security is a big problem. It won't help, but we
>> have to DO SOMETHING about security, so let's have the passwords expire. ...
>>
Password expiry is a very low-cost approach for the IT organization:
the overhead is largely placed on the end users.

>then there is this password rule Corporate Directive parady dated
>1April1984 ... I had received it Friday afternoon from a mainframe
>engineer in POK and redistributed it. Over the weekend somebody printed
>it and posted it to all the area corporate bulletin boards. Monday
>morning some number of people thought it was valid (even tho 1April was
>Sunday) .... "CORPORATE DIRECTIVE NUMBER 84-570471" in this past post
>http://www.garli.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52
>
ITYM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52

-- gil

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