> On 15 Jul 2024, at 11:08, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > IIRC it dates from decades ago when most people had only one login, if > that, and it was typically to a mainframe.
It was made popular in the PC era by a security researcher, sorry don’t have a ref to his name. But a few years ago the same researcher said that the advice was a bad idea and showed the amount of money the USA wasted each year on forcing millions of people to change passwords. He compared that cost against all cyber loses in a year. The password change costs where far higher. Barry -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
