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by kkarakk 2578 days ago
hmmm good way to get users to become heated with your customer support. i've implemented this feature and had the CEO of the company come down 15 floors and tell me personally to revert the change for him coz it was getting confusing for him to remember passwords. Everyone else in the company also demanded it once wind of this request spread...

This was the middle east, and yes they refused to use password manager programs because they didn't understand them

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It is largely agreed that Israel won the Arab-Israeli war because their NCO's on the ground were given much more leeway to make tactical decisions of their own. This was in start contrast to the top-heavy and often bureaucratic tactical decision making of the Arab League.

Why am I mentioning this? Well, if you are an army leader, and you know that your soldiers in general have an IQ score of around 82; would you let them make their own decisions on the ground? How about if your soldiers were known for having almost 115?

Yeah, sure, how you decide to make your next password may of course be down to culture, and the decision to have a password manager is perhaps too. However at some point a password manager should be a requirement for even signing up to your service, much less becoming an employee, especially if you already know about the prevalent culture.

I don't work in the middle east anymore for a reason...there is no changing some things until there is leadership from the top