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Originally Posted by legion
Time limits are placed in sensitive programs (like you can only log on once every 15 minutes) to prevents brute-force hacking. If there wasn't some kind of time limit, a hacker can get a program to keep submitting password guesses until it finds it. Locking you out of your account after some number of bad logons accomplishes the same thing.
Without one or both of these, it can take a hacker a matter of minutes to break into a system.
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i think you missed my gripe, i had just logged in, it went straight to the change assword screen, i had to enter my password, AGAIN along with the new assword, then it LOGGED ME OUT (not yelling, just emphasising) and WAIT 15 minutes before i could logg back in. i think i have had 2 different programs do that. how is that secure?
have you seen how many asswords i have? some systems have multiple ID's and PW's. equipement PW= 14, maybe more. PW i use on this computer alone, i have 2 just to turn it on. total i have 17 on the paper next to me. now, you tell me you can remember ALL of those.
since youguys are in IT, why have a banner that pops up to warn me in 9 days my PW will expire, just make me change it. why make me enter my PW when i just entered it to get in and the change PW screen comes up? there was one program that did not tell what the PW had to have, when i changed it, it said wrong format even though that was the previous format, i had to keep trying until i figured it out.
i had to vent, i feel better now.