Posted on 08/02/2018 11:51:38 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
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If the local power company gave me 'Honkey', I should be offended. No, I won't.
It’s very unlikely that an employee at PSE interdicted a user requested system call for a password reset, reset the password, and then forged a system response in real time. Ignoring the technical difficulty in performing such a feat, which is significant, said employee would have had to have been prepared at the exact time the customer hit the “reset password” button.
She’s going to write a book.
How to get Free Electricity for Life.
Are password resets normally emailed? This one was.
I wonder if this was not a low tech IT tech doing a manual reset? When I need a password reset here at work? I call Tech Support.
She specifically said she hit the “I forgot my password” button. Automated password recovery is pretty standard these days.
SEATTLE - An African-American woman says Puget Sound Energy emailed her a racial slur to use as the temporary password to her online account.I still think an employee doing a manual reset is far more plausible than a random generator producing NIGGA.
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