Mordac first appeared as "The Preventer", "your liason from the Information Technology Department".
This is his first appearance in the role of a security officer, implementing a policy we're probably now all very familiar with:
Let's compare that to NYU's password policies ([although it has changed a bit] with enforced complexity, they make Mordac of 1998 look like a softie!):
1. passwords must be 8 or more characters in length2. must consist of letters (a-z and/or A-Z) AND at least one number (0-9) AND at least one special character: !@#$%^&*()_-+=[]|\;"~',<>./?
3. the alphabetic portion of a password, taken as a whole, may not be a dictionary word proper name, or person's initials
4. you may not reuse a password that you've previously used with NYUHome
A decade later, the authentication policies became more complicated:
