Notes on an overseen Instant Message conversation wherein names have been changed to protect the guilty and to promote plausible deniability so no one (specifically the intrepid person reporting said Instant Message conversation) can be reprimanded

(18:17:33) Bob: hmmmm …

(18:17:42) Alice: hmmmmmmm?

(18:17:57) Bob: i will never begin to understand the minds of some of our users

(18:18:02) Bob: get this …

(18:18:12) Alice: I probably won't, but go ahead anyway

(18:18:12) Bob: kid you not …

(18:18:21) Bob: this is an email reply i received …

(18:18:32) Bob: Hi Bob,Thank you … I did log in and change the password to XXXXXXXXXX to match the username.

(18:18:56) Bob: **WHY WOULD YOU WANT THE PASSWD TO MATCH THE USERNAME ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!**

(18:19:16) Bob: doesn't that kind of defeat the idea of **having** a passwd?

(18:19:37) Alice: so that you speed up the password cracker. Heaven forbid it runs in .01 seconds when you can have it run for .001 seconds.