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In 1996 at my first job as a programmer, the company had a system where the password field in the login screen was obscured by using wingdings as the font. :)
by rgaino 6y ago
In 1996 at my first job as a programmer, the company had a system where the password field in the login screen was obscured by using wingdings as the font. :)
- netsharc 6y agoBut... that's not clever. Someone with a good memory can just remember the symbols and test out each letter on the keyboard using the font. "Person, woman, man camera, TV"...
- recursive 6y agoYes, I do believe that's the reason the story was related.
- tricky 6y agonice! I worked at a place in 1999 that had an RTF file on a public share that had the passwords for everything. It was ok because it was encrypted with wingdings...