Electric heater plug just exploded - what would have caused that?

[JohnW2]

Don't bank on it. On those ocassions I find myself trying to gain access to something - usually a lighting control desk, radio programming software etc - password is more common than 1234 or 0000.

I'm certainly not banking on it - as I said, I have no idea about how true are the things I've heard being said - although I do believe that a very substantial proportion of people would not now use "password" because of the the advice not to do that.

I am personally far less cautious about passwords than I should be (and certainly use some for multiple purposes) but, for what it's worth, have never even considered using "password"

 

[SUNRAY]

I'm certainly not banking on it - as I said, I have no idea about how true are the things I've heard being said - although I do believe that a very substantial proportion of people would not now use "password" because of the the advice not to do that.

I am personally far less cautious about passwords than I should be (and certainly use some for multiple purposes) but, for what it's worth, have never even considered using "password"

The thing is many accesses to a system are by a system admin who will input your name and a notional 'password' with the instruction to change it immediately on first use. The same thing it true for some software as I mentioned above. Many people didn't bother.

When working for BT it was like that but the change of password was forced on first use then every month with no return to used passwords. However the forgotten password system was a call to admin in which case they'd do a full reset including the count and supply a new password to start again. was reset by admin.

 

[ebee]

Don't bank on it.
On those ocassions I find myself trying to gain access to something - usually a lighting control desk, radio programming software etc - password is more common than 1234 or 0000.

What gets me is where people hide a key outside and think they have the most secret place in the world and are amazed when you find it before they tell you and you have to explain "Burglars know all these common places". Burglar Alarm keys were a classic example . Numbers for keypads are another.
One though that did impress me was a shopkeeper - his 4 figure PIN for his alarm was pinned to the till for all to see but craftily disguised, back in the day all local telephone exchages around here had 4 digit numbers for subscribers then later on each exchange had the same two digits added (Yet later another two digits might be used instead) so, example, he had 1234 then became 47 so 471234 so he had in big letters "TAXI 471234" for all to see and everybody thought it was a simple reminder of his preffered taxi firm telephone number, some older folk might use their "Old COOP Divi Number" etc.