So this just happened with my ISP, i have no words...

The fact you have my password in front of you in plain text is fucking terrifying and i know you do because i used to work for an ISP.

WOW! I'm speechless ...

@jespersh Do you honestly think level 1 customer service people will be doing this?

So... Your password starts with "no"? 😁

@shellbug Shit, you got me

Even if they may only know the first 2 letters of the password, it weakens its strength MASSIVELY!
Not only dictionary attacks, but bruteforce as well.
The latter would require for a character set of 60 then 60^2 = 3600x less computing power, which is pretty significant if the password is about 10 characters or less...

@theNSA loves this simple trick.

++ for "flummoxed"

Yeah not a great idea.

Also be careful with trusting on pixelation, it is sometimes possible to derive the original text

@kaupeyk I remember that, it was brilliant. Though he got very little time for what he did

At my ISP, I have a special password for telephonic verification.