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Assuming the system randomly generates 5 letter passwords only (since hers was a 5 letter word), with a mix of upper and lower case letters only, that is 52^5 possible combinations, or ~380 million possible combinations. The chances that a black woman and volunteer for the local NAACP would be the recipient of the 1 out of 380 million random password that would only offend a black person? Yeah, it's astronomical and requires numbers like "how many atoms are in the universe" size.
Occam's Razor says - HOAX.
EDIT - and if a human being sets a temp password, it is always something like "changeit" or "abc123" or something like that...per corporate policy in virtually every helpdesk environment in the country.
Last edited by Volobjectitarian; 08-03-2018 at 12:42 PM..
That's what I'm thinking. I think she didn't realize they were auto-generated.
But things have gotten so ridiculous that when I saw the word utility in the title I thought someone was saying their bill was racist for containing a reference to watts.
Assuming the system randomly generates 5 letter passwords only (since hers was a 5 letter word), with a mix of upper and lower case letters only, that is 52^5 possible combinations, or ~380 million possible combinations. The chances that a black woman and volunteer for the local NAACP would be the recipient of the 1 out of 380 million random password that would only offend a black person? Yeah, it's astronomical and requires numbers like "how many atoms are in the universe" size.
Occam's Razor says - HOAX.
EDIT - and if a human being sets a temp password, it is always something like "changeit" or "abc123" or something like that...per corporate policy in virtually every helpdesk environment in the country.
So do you think she faked the email? I would imagine she saved it. I would also imagine the utility company would have a copy and would show the original of she did.
I'm thinking it was an unfortunate accident.
By the way, plenty of people don't like racial slurs. It's not ONLY black people.
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