I hate password rotation rules. Companies have iT departments that love nothing more than to add "value" by adding their own spin on what password security shou

I hate password rotation rules. Companies have iT departments that love nothing more than to add "value" by adding their own spin on what password security should be. It's pure security theater. At every company I've ever worked that required password rotation, everyone just incremented a digit, usually at the end. I also hate the completely arbitrary rules on length (I mean, why do some sites have a maximum length?). Some require uppercase and lowercase as well as digits and certain special characters and what special characters are allowed is inconsistent and completely arbitrary. We need to focus on how much entropy [1] a password has without arbitrary rules. 20 lowercase letters is going to be better than a 7 letter dictionary word with one letter capitalized and a number of symbol on the end. In fact pretty much every password 8 characters of length should be considered cracked. 10 should probably be the absolute minimum. [1]: https://xkcd.com/936/ https://xkcd.com/936/