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This was standard MO at my uni. Show up in person with ID during normal business hours and (re)set your password. It was high friction by design. It only worke
by hprotagonist 4y ago
This was standard MO at my uni. Show up in person with ID during normal business hours and (re)set your password.
It was high friction by design. It only worked well because 98% of the entire user base lived within two miles of the IT office—and the amount of rage generated when a professor on sabbatical had to come back to campus just to reset their password was a sight to see.
- chmod775 4y agoSeconding this. That's how it works at my university.
- ev1 4y ago> and the amount of rage generated when a professor on sabbatical had to come back to campus just to reset their password was a sight to see. My personal experience is that these people are the most likely to have a dozen degrees and also a high success rate of being phished.
- hprotagonist 4y agoit was extra fun in the years of windows XP worms! tenured professors will click on damn near anything except what you want them to, ive found.