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by swaits 5467 days ago
Are you sure of this? The CSR could also be comparing the hashed/bcrypted/whatever version of the password you give them over the phone to the hashed/bcrypted/whatever version stored in the database.
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To activate SSH on your account, you are required to dump your password into the free-text area on a support ticket (see http://support.jumba.com.au/kb/questions/45/Do+you+offer+SSH... ).

Given they do this sort of thing, even if they did do fancy hash comparisons when I called them, they still have people's passwords hanging around in plain text elsewhere on the system.

Wow, ok. Yah that sounds about as bad as it gets. Stay away!