"Wait Walter, what? I don't understand this email."
"Turns out our $8/hr rent-a-coder destroyed the user table. All that is left are the passwords, which for some reason are in a different table in plain-text."
"Crap. Wait, what are you holding?"
"Its the hard drive from the server. I'm going to send it to one of those recovery places. The guy on the phone said that they could do a recovery for 10k."
"What?! I'm not paying that much. Wait, doesn't the server need that drive?"
"Dunno. It seems to still be working. Lots of lights flashed when I took it out, but I ignored it."
"Fine, then what do we do. We can't tell people to log in with their passwords, can we?"
"Why not? Its not like we'll be mocked by some roving gang of geeks. The passwords are still associated with their member IDs. We can just put in some bullshit about security and switching the username and password. We'll ignore what they type in as username!"
"Wait Walter, what? I don't understand this email."
"Turns out our $8/hr rent-a-coder destroyed the user table. All that is left are the passwords, which for some reason are in a different table in plain-text."
"Crap. Wait, what are you holding?"
"Its the hard drive from the server. I'm going to send it to one of those recovery places. The guy on the phone said that they could do a recovery for 10k."
"What?! I'm not paying that much. Wait, doesn't the server need that drive?"
"Dunno. It seems to still be working. Lots of lights flashed when I took it out, but I ignored it."
"Fine, then what do we do. We can't tell people to log in with their passwords, can we?"
"Why not? Its not like we'll be mocked by some roving gang of geeks. The passwords are still associated with their member IDs. We can just put in some bullshit about security and switching the username and password. We'll ignore what they type in as username!"
loudly and in unison
"Winning!"