The Thirteen Greatest Error Messages of All Time

Technologizer writes "They add insult to injury — and computing wouldn't be the same without 'em. So I rounded up a baker's dozen of the most important error messages in computing history — from Does Not Compute to Abort, Retry, Fail to the Sad Mac to the big kahuna of them all — the mighty Blue Screen of Death. And just in case my judgment is off, I include a poll to let the rest of the world vote for the greatest error message of all." I can't believe that "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" didn't make the list.

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It's also not specific for a reason.

[Ungrounded Lightning]

Interestingly, the vagueness about whether it's the username or password that's at fault is deliberate. It's to keep an attacker from being able to confirm that a guessed user ID exists and just attack its password. Having to guess both at once makes the job much harder.