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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by oxryly1 on Tuesday November 18, 2014 @07:51PM (#8627508)
So, in other words, this is an elaborate prank?
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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by tlrobinson on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @05:21AM (#8629178)
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)
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Re:McGill will double your password if you don’t do it first by oxryly1 on Wednesday November 19, 2014 @06:31PM (#8633416)
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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