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Was the password "H2O"?
by zephjc 15y ago
Was the password "H2O"?
- cellis 15y ago123 or abc is my guess
- jarkarj 15y ago"God", system administrators love to use "god". It's that whole male ego thing.
- nobody31415926 15y ago123? That's the same password I have on my luggage
- droithomme 15y agoMany years ago I worked for a defense contractor who not only had 123abc as the password for a workstation that held secret information and was connected to the internet, but a post-it note with "password: 123abc" was kept on top of a monitor which was visible through a window from a corridor that random members of the public had access to. When I brought this up as possibly a poor security practice the reaction was anger towards me, and then moving the post-it note to the side of the monitor so it would not be visible from the window.
- JoshTriplett 15y agoSounds like the same school of reactive pseudo-security that gave us the TSA: broken in too many ways to count, patching one particular aspect of the problem when brought up or exploited, completely ignoring the big picture, and getting angry when questioned.
- pilom 15y agoIf there actually was Secret level classified information on a system, it is a security infraction that that monitor is visible through a window to the public. That contractor should have been reported to the program Security Officer. Glad the defense contractor I work for takes things a little more seriously.
- Steko 15y agoI will put up 50 HN bucks that it was 999 set up by a Herman Cain fan.