I worked for a company who put an accounting system in my office. Reports were password protected so I had to wait while they drove across town to make a print. But it was the 80’s and not very sophisticated. Opened up the program with a text reader and in the first lines of code was password = xxx So I printed the report and bosses got cranky and changed password. We did this for months until they lost the password for their own machine. I got a coffee and locked myself in office. It took me one minute with a text editor and the rest of the time I used to enjoy the quiet and let them stew. Only told them how insecure their software was after they went bankrupt. Board meetings were at local correction center where boss was doing time for fraud.
Stevefk over 6 years ago
Just try 1,2,3,4,5,6 or “password”!
Flatlander, purveyor of fine covfefe over 6 years ago
I worked for a company who put an accounting system in my office. Reports were password protected so I had to wait while they drove across town to make a print. But it was the 80’s and not very sophisticated. Opened up the program with a text reader and in the first lines of code was password = xxx So I printed the report and bosses got cranky and changed password. We did this for months until they lost the password for their own machine. I got a coffee and locked myself in office. It took me one minute with a text editor and the rest of the time I used to enjoy the quiet and let them stew. Only told them how insecure their software was after they went bankrupt. Board meetings were at local correction center where boss was doing time for fraud.