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Saturday, May 10, 2025 |
Plenty Cryptic After All   
Date: Sent Thursday, December 14, 2023
Category: None | Rating: 3.75/5 (110 votes)
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A minor e-mail virus infestation hits the group that this network technician is responsible for, and after cleaning up the mess he decides it's time
for new passwords all around, just to be safe.
Most of the group works in the same location, so he just takes a walk around the office, whispering the new password to each user.
But one woman is at a remote site. The tech can't reach her by phone, and he's leery of sending her new password in unencrypted e-mail.
Finally, he hits on an idea. He begins the e-mail message by explaining the password change.
Then he writes: "And your new password is: (the last name of our intern from that hot country) followed by the digits of (the number of points our
basketball team scored in our last game)."
Very clever, he figures -- it's information only someone in the group would know.
Until he gets a reply message from the user: "I tried the password, but it didn't work. Could you set it to something not so long and hard to type?
And are those parentheses important?"
Received from Thomas Ellsworth.
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