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I once revoked my bosses e-mail and VPN access because his password was 'password123'. It was my job to keep things safe after all and I had asked him nicely a few times.

EDIT: I proposed a new password of: @$tevezA$$ignedPwD@# (Steve's Assigned Password)

He said no to that one.



Heh, I have a co-worker that recently deployed a production router with a blank administrator password. Fortunately, I've got automated jobs in place that find those kind of things. The password is now a variation of "John is a dumbass" and I'm just waiting for him to ask for the password.


That's awesome!


While awesome this is not a screw-up.

The screw-up is the boss in this one.


He didn't view it that way but thankfully his boss did.




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