[empyrrhicist]

One time I had to reset my password with the power company - they had such a system, and the lady had to read me something like:

Uh4zB4DP55WD!

Apparently I was a bit salty with the system when I set it.

The fact that she shouldn't have even been able to look up the password in the first place due to hashing was lost on her.

[abustamam]

That's pretty funny on a few levels, not in the least that they required a "secure" password like that but stored them in plain text.

[raddan]

I regularly conduct transactions at the branch of my local bank wherein they ask me for no credentials whatsoever. I also once forgot to bring my account number with me and the teller said "no worries, I'll look it up for you." Kind of horrifying.

[tonyedgecombe]

My bank’s password field is case insensitive. Of course they could have lowercased it before hashing but I doubt it.

[empyrrhicist]

Yeah I was a bit shocked... like... you're not supposed to know that!