A good advice that goes both ways

Regularly changing passwords is one of the things that computer security experts, as well as the guy credited with inventing the modern password security scheme tend to despise. Creating convoluted passwords that are hard for a human to remember already has flaws. While it helps prevent the movie cliche and classic hacker trick of guessing- it doesn’t really make it any harder for a computer to guess- that can be done simply by making a password longer. But having a long, completely random and meaningless password that you change all the time makes passwords harder to remember, and then you have different long hard to remember random passwords for 20 different systems. So what do most people do? They just write it down on paper or in a file so they don’t forget- which is a bigger security risk to begin with. Passwords are encrypted and stored so they can’t be read plain text in code, but a file or paper generally aren’t, it makes it easy for a human or machine to get.

@kakaburra But...but my underoos look better there!