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by Aeolun 1567 days ago
My pet peeve is having to change my password every 3 months. I can practically guarantee all the employees use some form of incrementing number.
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1. Try passwords until you get locked out

2. Engage with IT to unlock

3. Reset password flow

4. Iterate on new password as the complexity requirements you fail are slowly revealed to you

5. “Password cannot be the same as previous n passwords”

6. End up with an even more forgettable variation

7. Sign in again across all your now-invalid sessions across a dozen apps and devices.

8. Apply liberal amounts of 2FA + push-based and email or txt confirmations to the above for extra hate from users.

9. Repeat forever because obviously there is no better way to do this, but GraphQL and NFTs are going to save the world, let’s work on those instead!

Don't get me started...