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"why would i change my passwords?" (pawb.social)

submitted 1 year ago by tibor@pawb.social to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

NIST removed password expiration from their recommendations in 2020. Instead they recommend only forcing password changes when compromise is suspected.

The main argument is that they do not make users or systems demonstrably safer and encourage bad password habits.