Pointless & impractical vehicles

[Dogtrousers]

Totally OT but in about 1985 I got my second job. I got a phone call from my previous employers. It had taken them a while to track me down. No mobiles or private emails in those days. Could I remember the root password on the Xenix server? I'd given it to a bloke called Mark (who was drunk most of the time) and he'd lost/forgotten it. I duly supplied it, and I can still remember that one too.

Another time - years later - a guy was leaving and I asked him for the admin password on something he had been looking after. He blushed uncontrollably and apologised about it, wrote it down and handed it to me. It was Kylie69. If he hadn't made such a fuss I'd probably have just treated it as a string of characters. As it was he had the mick taken rather a lot during his leaving drinks that night.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I was in Bangkok last year and the driving standards were frightening especially the scooters

I remember in the early 00's a local bemoaning the pervasive idea of Karma; many people apparently still had the idea that whether you had an accident or not was fated and based on your Karma, so it didn't matter how you drove; if you had bad Karma you'd still crash.

 

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[ebikeerwidnes]

Totally OT but in about 1985 I got my second job. I got a phone call from my previous employers. It had taken them a while to track me down. No mobiles or private emails in those days. Could I remember the root password on the Xenix server? I'd given it to a bloke called Mark (who was drunk most of the time) and he'd lost/forgotten it. I duly supplied it, and I can still remember that one too.

Another time - years later - a guy was leaving and I asked him for the admin password on something he had been looking after. He blushed uncontrollably and apologised about it, wrote it down and handed it to me. It was Kylie69. If he hadn't made such a fuss I'd probably have just treated it as a string of characters. As it was he had the mick taken rather a lot during his leaving drinks that night.

When I have left a job. I ha e always cha.ngedball the admin type passwords to something random so they are nit like things I normally use
I then write them down ready to be handed over when I leave
No idea whether or not the last place handed over the notes I left but I was surprised I did not get a phone call!!

 

[Drago]

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That's actually not pointless. A quirk of law allows it to be driven by 16 year olds in Germany. The ECU has a new map to restrict them to 20BHP.

 

[Mike_P]

Work went through a phase of requiring a password change every month. Seemed a lot of people just upped a number on the end leading to a panic when they forgot what number they had reached. A password including the month and year seemed the obvious to me.

 

[Drago]

Work went through a phase of requiring a password change every month. Seemed a lot of people just upped a number on the end leading to a panic when they forgot what number they had reached. A password including the month and year seemed the obvious to me.

When the dibble did that I worked my way through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programmes, and back to the beginning again.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Work went through a phase of requiring a password change every month. Seemed a lot of people just upped a number on the end leading to a panic when they forgot what number they had reached. A password including the month and year seemed the obvious to me.

A known unintended consequence of increasing password complexity requirements and change frequency is an increase in the use of post-it notes as a secure password repository

 

[BrumJim]

A known unintended consequence of increasing password complexity requirements and change frequency is an increase in the use of post-it notes as a secure password repository

Our company has now stopped requiring password changes for this very reason. Although my face seems to unlock my computer now. Just need to remember to take it with me every day.

 

[Alex321]

We had a security firm in once - they had just finished auditing the computer security of the company over the road
They were quite pleased that we generally welcomed them and were happy to listen and allow them to help

apparently their reception across the road had been different
the IT people considered them a threat and not necessary as their security was perfect and consultants were not needed

The consultants asked for basic access - not security or admin access and said that if they could not log in as 50% of the staff with 24 hours then they would go home
After 24 hours they had managed to log in as 90% of the IT staff
apparently well over 50% of them had their password as either
Liverpool
or
Everton

and this is the IT staff!!!

(guess which city this was in!!)

One of the companies I used to work for were in the process of upgrading all Pc's in the office to Windows XP. ALL IT staff were drafted in for this task. As part of the process, copies were taken of all their significant files & settings, then the HD was wiped and installed from a clone, then their files & setting restored. To do this, we needed to know their passwords.

The company had a 30 day password change requirement. Over 50% of the users had a password consisting of the current month and year.

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

One of my first sales jobs involved supplying payment terminals to newsagents, grocers, small shops and the nature of the product meant it was mostly Asian, mostly Muslim owners. The terminal was secured using a PIN chosen by the customer. I would estimate over 80% used the same four numbers - a reference to a passage in the Koran. When I serviced the terminal, the owners were always shocked when I correctly entered their PIN - but they never changed it. Probably still the same now.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

One of my first sales jobs involved supplying payment terminals to newsagents, grocers, small shops and the nature of the product meant it was mostly Asian, mostly Muslim owners. The terminal was secured using a PIN chosen by the customer. I would estimate over 80% used the same four numbers - a reference to a passage in the Koran. When I serviced the terminal, the owners were always shocked when I correctly entered their PIN - but they never changed it. Probably still the same now.

Go on - stop teasing

what was it????

 

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