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U.S. water utilities hacked after leaving passwords set to default '1111' (fastcompany.com)
31 points by goplayoutside on Dec 23, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Evidently, reality can be as silly as fiction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pUY-BQxHm8


In an episode of Flaked, a character says his pin is "one eleven one", and there's something about that being easier to remember than "one one one one".

I will say I think about "one eleven one" all the time, so maybe there's something to that (when I was a kid our house number was "eleven eleven")


are you sure you didn't mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6iW-8xPw3k


Ah, yes, I'd forgotten about that earlier bit from Spaceballs!


The really amazing thing is that is the same combination I have on my luggage.


Something weird about referring to using the default password as 'hacking'


Still ok that they didn't blame China, Russia or North Korea yet.

There was some time ago the concept of ECDL (European computing driving licence). I think the concept died when even "an idiot" could use "a computer".




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