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Server room doors at a hotel in Denver changed my whole approach to passwords
I was staying at this place downtown and saw they had a keycard lock on the server room but the door was propped open with a trash can... the front desk guy told me the manager's password was 'admin123' for everything. That made me go home and change all my router and cloud account passwords that same night. Has anyone else seen something like that in person?
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mary_kelly1mo ago
Right @nancy824 said it perfect about the router admin thing. Found a dental office once where the server password was literally "password" taped to the monitor.
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nancy8241mo ago
A locked door with a trash can propping it open is basically an invitation. The 'admin123' thing is way too common. First thing is to never reuse passwords across anything work related. Use a password manager, it's worth the few bucks a month. Enable two factor authentication on every account that lets you, especially email and cloud stuff. Also reset your router admin password to something random and turn off remote access unless you actually need it. That front desk guy probably saved you a headache even if he didn't mean to.
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patking1mo ago
Tbh Nancy's spot on about the router admin password thing. So many people just leave it as whatever the ISP set it to and don't think twice. Ngl I've seen whole offices get locked out because someone changed the WiFi password and forgot it but the router admin credentials were still default. That front desk guy might have been a pain but he probably saved them from something way worse down the line.
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