Ruth [☕️ 👩🏻💻📚✍🏻🧵🪡🍵]So with the proliferation of deep fakes etc... M and I came up with a "family safe word."
Unfortunate complication: IT IS DEEPLY HILARIOUS AND I CAN'T TELL ANYONE DAMMIT
this is like when my boss said "my current password is based on you and it's very funny and I can't tell you what it is"
It's been 15 years and I am HAUNTED by this
Trammell Hudson@platypus my bank used to allow custom security questions, so I set one to "what are you wearing?" and the answer to "that's very inappropriate please transfer me to your manager". the first time an customer service rep encountered it they couldn't stop laughing and had to actually transfer to a coworker to complete the call.
Frank Barton@th @platypus a previous ITSM tool (they fixed it, so I won't name-and-shame... and it was 18 years ago) didn't have a "masquerade as user" feature for their tech support team... the team had access to our plaintext passwords.
I figured this out, and changed my password to "PlaintextPasswordsSuck" (or something along those lines... like I said, 18 years ago)
next time I had to call in for support... the agent "let me just get signed in as you... [beat] [busting a gut laughing] yes they do"
About a month later they updated their systems, and forced a password change on everybody (Still didn't really trust them, but they said they built in a feature for their support to log-in-as-user)