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Most office drones have had to deal with a job that requires them to keep changing their passwords l...But according to the US Federal Trade Commission's chief technologist, Lorrie Cranor, the strategy has some major holes."Unless there is reason to believe a password has been compromised or shared, requiring regular password changes may actually do more harm than good in some cases," Dr Cranor wrote ...That point is supported by research Dr Cranor conducted at Carnegie Mellon University. It found that users who felt the institution's password policy was annoying came up with passwords that were 46 per cent more likely to be guessed than those who supported frequent password changes.