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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

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[–] Drusas@fedia.io 21 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

To be fair, simply forcing users to create a new password every X weeks is bad security policy.

[–] Opisek@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

It's actually even outright discouraged by NIST.

For those who don't see the reason why, forced password resets lead to users using predictable passwords like "password2025october", "password2025november", etc.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

It is and it's actually not even recommended best practise to change passwords anymore precisely because of this. It hasn't been considered best practise since I think around 2016-17 so businesses are really lagging.

If you get governmental contract work and pretty sure not resetting the passwords too often is actually now part of the security requirement but outside of that businesses just do what they think is best regardless of research.