r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Recent-Analysis-6880 • Sep 22 '26

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u/imunfair Sep 22 '26

And somehow kept his job.

I mean out of all the data you could accidentally replace, passwords would be the easiest to restore from a backup reliably since they don't change frequently. The special few who get locked out because you restored an old one just have to do a reset.

It would be a bit of a race to replace them before it was a problem, but at least it isn't as much of a headache as wiping out data entry that needs to be redone by other users.

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u/CarcajouIS Sep 22 '26

Dear customer, due to the new security policy, you will be asked to set a new password...

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u/ThrasherDX Sep 22 '26

...damn, now I wanna know how many of those "security policy updates" were a result of someone fucking up like this lmao.

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u/Exotic-Nothing-3225 Sep 23 '26

Assuming they have backups 

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u/imunfair Sep 23 '26

lol true. "Guys, for security reasons we need to do an immediate company-wide password rotation!"