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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
