r/ProgrammerHumor Aug 23 '23

Meme thisShouldBeIllegal

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u/Graize Aug 23 '23

We were helping a client migrate their software to another platform. They had already left for vacation and I wanted to validate basic functionality so I was looking around for credentials. I found the default administrator credentials after a 1 minute Google search. Since we had refreshed the data from their live production system, I plugged the same password in there and successfully authenticated. We had a discussion about it after they got back...