Re: Force users to change their password every 30 days?

Michael DeBusk wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:18:52 GMT, Jean-David Beyer
<jeandavid8@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suppose I could have gotten a safe with a combination lock on it
and locked the notebook in there, but even if I had the budget for
that, my office was too small for it.

And you would have had to remember the combination. ;)

Yes, but just one. A friend in the next office was working on some
U.S.Government SECRET stuff and she had a 5-patent combination lock on it.
She had to change the combination once a month. She was not allowed to write
it down. She was not allowed to use her age or measurements as part of the
combination.

When I had a SECRET security clearance, it was pretty embarassing. IMAO, the
secrets were not worth knowing (other than I could not do my job without
it). Most of them were CYA, not really important. I did not divulge the
secrets, but I would have preferred not knowing them, since many of the
"secrets" were common knowledge that I was no longer allowed to use outside
the project in question. Very confusing. Like if Ohm's Law was in the
document, ... .

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