After that, everybody got just 'passw0rd'?
It's a few decades back, and at the company where this pilot fish works, new passwords are regularly chosen for users by the security system.
"It was automatic and reasonably confidential," fish says. "The software periodically selected a random word from a dictionary file, then informed the user of his new password via our homegrown email system.
"One particular user was a woman fairly high up in the organization, who had certain...let's call them character flaws. I don't recall the exact password assigned to her, but it was a perfectly good adjective -- as a matter of fact, perfectly fitting this user, in the most uncomplimentary of ways.
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