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[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The password is either admin or password

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Summer2024 Autumn2024 Spring2024 Winter2024

Are the most common passwords for regular employees. Update the year with the current or previous one.

Source: I was in IT.

P.s. if you have access to the physical location. Look for post-it notes under the keyboard.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Under the keyboard? The company you worked for must be some sort of security company or financial institution. I've seen them stuck on the damn monitor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Bwahahaha. Ditto.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Given they had access to plaintext passwords, I’d hope not

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Oh shit, stealing this. Tired of changing the number on my overly long password. It's just inconvenient to type 32 charachters when "SeasonYear" would work.

Bro just made an unknown company a little less secure 💀

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

"what is your password?"
"uh, it's just the letter A"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRGljemfwUE. A classic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry, there isn't an option to arrange icons by "penis."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That proves you were the one that was targeted. It doesn't say anything about your intentions.

You could have had the best intentions and just missed the signs that it was a malicious email. Or you could have intentionally clicked on it out of spite.

If I knew my employee did it out of spite, I would fire them. Otherwise, it falls under the shit happens category, try to do better next time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

If was so miserable at a job that I thought giving passwords away to random people was a good idea, I would hope that I had moved on long before.