{"id":1546,"date":"2009-06-09T02:59:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-09T07:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1546"},"modified":"2009-06-09T05:03:51","modified_gmt":"2009-06-09T10:03:51","slug":"forced-password-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2009\/06\/09\/forced-password-changes","title":{"rendered":"Forced password changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sun.com\/\">employer<\/a> has this odd policy where they force you to change your password, once every six months or so. Its annoying, because sometimes, you forget your password. Its inherently more insecure to write it down somewhere, isn&#8217;t it? Plus, you can&#8217;t reuse passwords.<\/p>\n<p>However, my mail client always has my password. And therein comes, a useful Thunderbird add-on, called <a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/thunderbird\/addon\/2848\">Password Exporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Now, I can see what my last known password was, and login when need be.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon\" href=\"mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Forced%20password%20changes&body=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bytebot.net%2Fblog%2Farchives%2F2009%2F06%2F09%2Fforced-password-changes&share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email a link to a friend\" data-email-share-error-title=\"Do you have email set up?\" data-email-share-error-text=\"If you&#039;re having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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Its annoying, because sometimes, you forget your password. Its inherently more insecure to write it down somewhere, isn&#8217;t it? Plus, you can&#8217;t reuse passwords. However, my mail client always has my password. 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