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Mandatory periodic password changes make passwords worse, because people just increment the number on the end.

Drawn from what Troy Hunt said

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cybersecurity Attack and defence in software: vulnerabilities, hardening, and what changes when a model is good at finding them.

behavioural science Applying how people actually decide to policy, rather than assuming how they should.

What Troy Hunt actually said

  1. Troy Hunt Security researcher who runs Have I Been Pwned
    If you're working in an environment that mandates regular password changes, you're very likely doing the same thing because it's an easy human control to deal with a technology requirement that's seen as an impediment.

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