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Study says password changes are useless

From The Boston Globe | A study has concluded what lots of people have long suspected: Many of these irritating security measures forcing users to change passwords are a waste of time. The study, by a top researcher at Microsoft, found that changing passwords regularly does not stop online infiltration. “Most security advice simply offers a poor cost-benefit trade-off to users,” the author of the study wrote.

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