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Lawyers, accountants, and software engineers accumulate these things like you wouldn't believe. We can't tell you about current secrets, only stale ones.
I once knew that the top level password used at a corporation valued at 6 billion dollars was 'password123'. They had no backups, no VPN, and that password was used at all the high-value access points. It's since been fixed, but it was that for years.
I like that this implies you regularly checked
Regularly had to use it to do work I was contracted to do.
Company went public one day, they restructured massively to become more efficient. I imagine that kind of stuff stopped then, but don't really know.
"What the CEO wants, the CEO gets" - head of IT doing nothing for 300k/yr
I'm surprised the password wasn't 1-2-3-4-5, like on their luggage.
What kind of idiot uses that on their luggage?
Damn, I've got to go change the combination on my luggage!