tnbp nailed it To explain the other side of the comment, "cargo cult security" refers to some groups of tribal people in New Guinea who build giant wooden airp

tnbp nailed it To explain the other side of the comment, "cargo cult security" refers to some groups of tribal people in New Guinea who build giant wooden airplanes and control towers in the hopes of attracting airplanes delivering food[1][2]. It's very common in the security space for people who have zero understanding of underlying security models to build elaborate structures that kind of look like and feel like they're doing security, but it's actually providing no value. These practices get blindly passed on for decades despite all the best effort of actual experts to explain to them why the practices are, in fact, completely useless. Password rotation is a mindbogglingly persistent one, as described in the other comment. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlYe2KS0-Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmlYe2KS0-Y [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult