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The Unspoken Taboo - The Never Expiring Password
anon writes "Every security savvy professional lives with the daily fear of the "never expiring password" being exposed. It's the unspoken taboo, the wide open back door in every corporate network. But no-one ever acknowledges it or discusses it. All applications have got pre-defined passwords that never change. Which means developers, privileged users and hosting third party service providers will all have access to these passwords."
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Complete idiots, that's who. You would be shocked at how many of them there are in software development these days, especially in-house app development.
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No offense but I call "bull shit" on this.
If you have every lived or been to tokyo you would know that space is at a premium(more so than new york) so the building would have had the security system refitted without even thinking about it as the land if _FAR_ more expensive than any security system would be. There is no way in hell they would let that size of building stand empty.
It said "windows 98 or better" so I installed Linux
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