alt Hacker NewsOne time I had to reset my password with the power company - they had such a system, and the lady had to read me something like:
Uh4zB4DP55WD!
Apparently I was a bit salty with the system when I set it.
The fact that she shouldn't have even been able to look up the password in the first place due to hashing was lost on her.
That's pretty funny on a few levels, not in the least that they required a "secure" password like that but stored them in plain text.