Quote #5

'I'm sorry' I say for the 1 billionth time, 'passwords are encrypted on the system, and it's far easier for me to change your password than to find out what it is.' (Which is crap; I know what it is, the password changing routine does have a slight in-house modification which the implementers probably weren't counting on.)

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