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ryanlol
11y ago
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Customer support. A human can then verify the user even if they can only remember a part of the password.
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stephenr
11y ago
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Sounds like a security flaw ripe for social engineering
ryanlol
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11y ago
Customer support by itself tends to be a security flaw ripe for social engineering.
stephenr
11y ago
Phone support can be tricky yes, but there are other ways to identify the caller without storing their password in plaintext
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