[cestith]

What would it take to get you to name and shame? That whistle pretty likely needs to be blown on the one that didn't agree to abandon such a policy.

[developer2]

Small private company, nobody's ever heard of it. There are a lot of shady ones out there.

[ams6110]

Agree. MANY small development shops will build these kinds of backdoors into systems because they don't have the skill or the resources to build proper customer support features.

[amenghra]

Remember "Chuck Norris"...

[toss1829654]

Microsoft Windows does this. NT hashes are password equivalent:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_the_hash