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oxryly1
on Nov 19, 2014
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McGill will double your password if you don’t do i...
So, in other words, this is an elaborate prank?
tlrobinson
on Nov 19, 2014
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It's a moderately aggressive way to get people to change their passwords (more aggressive than an email or prompt, less aggressive than forcing upon login)
oxryly1
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If that happened to me I'd just keep the doubled password. It seems more secure (it's not), and I already remember it.
This approach just seems dumb.
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