| Re: High School Student Charged in Computer Hacking Scheme |
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> Some organizations change their passwords regularly. This makes it
> hard for people to keep remembering them and IMHO actually makes
> things worse by encouraging written passwords.
In fact, the folks who do the Sarbanes-Oxley auditing seem to
interpret the rules to mean that everyone absolutely must change
passwords with fanatical frequency, thus insuring that every
workstation in every corporate environment in the United States will
have the password stuck to it with an easy to spot yellow sticky note
:-).