[downer61]

My hope is that the ambient animosity seeps through, via high turn-over, leading to increased personnel costs for the organization.

In general, hopefully this uncooperative behavior adds to the general misery distributed throughout the world, and all just because security goons need to feel like they're smarter than the people subject to their policies.

Consider this, oh reader, should you have the opportunity to alter password policies for a project your working on.

[icebraining]

Clearly you haven't done customer support, if you think having to listen to a long string of characters is what's going break them :)