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Regular password changes haven’t been recommended procedure for several years now. The only problem it solves is preventing people from using the same password everywhere, but since everyone just sticks a number at the end anyways it doesn’t actually protect against that either
Exactly. The problem is that government policy is slow to change. So when the government has made it a required change every 90 days, that policy will stick around for decades even after the practice has fallen out of favor.