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Sure, if you use unique passwords, then changing passwords isn't as useful. Yet we shouldn't judge a security policy based on the existence or not of another policies.

What you are judging then is a whole set of policies, which is a bit too controlling, you will most often not have absolute control over the users policy set, all you can do is suggest policies which may or may not be adopted, you can't rely on their strict adoption.

A similar case is on the empiric efficacy of birth control. The effectiveness of abstinence based methods is lower than condoms in practice. Whereas theoretically abstinence based birth control would be better, who cares what the rates are in theory? The actual success rates are what matters.





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