This is like asking "dear members of the medical community, why do podiatrists touch my feet like do they have a weird foot fetish?"
I'm a computer programmer, the same system policy that applies to you when you log in to a domain applies to me, the security people set up the policy with the Sys Admins, and yes they are mostly useless, although so are almost all the business users I write applications for so... Actually the IT thread in the grown up section was just talking about security. My experiences is there are two types of security people, those who couldn't hack it in Development, so they just run some bull shit scripts, and the other group of extra competent guys with all the stupidly expensive and difficult Certs, with compotency on multiple levels, but if they're working at a run of the mill company they're probably closer to the former.
the fact is most IT people view non IT people--at least when it is in regards to using computers--as idiots, and quite honestly we are very rarely proven wrong. Security gives a dumb seemingly arbitrary number of attenpts to cover their own ass, because if you are compromised, and as a result malware gets into the system, they are on the hook to find it and prevent as much damage as possible, so to them its easier to make logging in a fucking hassle to you and me, then to worry about putting out fires every minute, because you hide your password under your keyboard.
But yeah passwords are annoying as shit, just remember most of us have like 5x the number of credential log ins as you, its not like you're the only one that has to put up with this shit. There's a lot more difficult shit I have to do than quarterly rote memorization.
Nester
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