![]() ![]() She claimed she had personally used it and knew of two other employees who had used it to log in and manipulate other users’ data and were subsequently fired. In 2010, an anonymous Facebook engineer claimed in an an interview that, at one time, employees could log into any Facebook profile using a master password which was a variant on Chuck Norris (replacing some of the letters with symbols and numbers). ![]() The phrase, of course, is well known and has appeared all over popular culture, including Popeye, Bugs Bunny and SpongeBob. In the story, part of The Thousand and One Nights (also known as Arabian Nights), a collection of Arabic stories collected over the centuries, Ali Baba, a poor woodcutter, overhears the secret phrase and (tl dr) eventually gets the treasure. The grandaddy of all passwords is Open Sesame, which was the secret phrase that was used in the famous tale, Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves, to open a cave containing treasure belonging to a group of thieves. What could go possibly go wrong? Open Sesame Once he left office, Strategic Air Defense commanders, who resented McNamara and were concerned about being able to launch the missiles quickly, set the launch codes to all zeroes. While many missiles weren’t outfitted with this additional level of security for years, the codes were installed on U.S.-based Minuteman missiles under the direction of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. nuclear missiles were required to have launch codes by presidential order in 1962, to safeguard against rogue missile launches. 00000000įor many years during the Cold War, Minuteman nuclear missiles housed in silos in the United States required a trivial eight digit code to be launched: 00000000. Inspired by a Quora thread, here are a dozen of the most famous passwords used through (mostly recent) history, in both the real and fictional worlds. ![]() While the prevalence of passwords has greatly increased thanks to computers and the Internet, they’ve actually been used, in one form or another, to protect things for hundreds, and even thousands, of years. Like them or not, you can’t escape having to use them for just about everything these days, from unlocking your mobile phone to accessing your bank account online to streaming a movie on Netflix. Passwords - we all have a million of them in our lives. ![]()
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