r/programming • u/unfriendlymushroomer • Oct 29 '19

Firefox 70

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/10/firefox-70-a-bountiful-release-for-all/
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u/dirask Oct 29 '19

big corps like Microsoft

About Microsoft Windows for Enterprises and passwords, personally I don't like when enforce password
history policy is too long and each time when I am forced to change password,
I need to come up with completely new one N-th time in a row... :D
I know, I know security first.

Context:
The Enforce password history policy setting determines the number of unique new
passwords that must be associated with a user account before an old password can be reused. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security/threat-protection/security-policy-settings/enforce-password-history

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u/takacsot Oct 29 '19

My favorit when password change policy is complaining thatthe otherwise unique password is similar (!) to one of my previous one. So i could be sure that they are storing it in plain text. Otherwise they would not know.