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MiguelC Silver badge

Frequent change ≠ sound security

Some word, a symbol (usually "-"), month and year numbers is, probably, the most common combination used for passwords that must be frequently changed.

In those cases, if an old password is eventually obtained, the current one will be easily deducted.

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