FTC Stops Requiring Regular Password Changes
4 Aug
2016
4 Aug
'16
2:43 a.m.
Lorrie Cranor, new chief technologist at the US Federal Trade Commission, has managed to persuade them to drop their policy of requiring regular password changes http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/frequent-password-changes-are-the-enemy-of-security-ftc-technologist-says/:
Frequent password changes do little to improve security and very possibly make security worse by encouraging the use of passwords that are more susceptible to cracking.
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Lawrence D'Oliveiro