I worked at at several State or City offices where passwords were in pencil underneath the keyboard...
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Jan 23, 2013, at 2:09 AM, Linda <[email protected]> wrote: > That is very sad. Poor fellow. > > For others, in other circumstances, sometimes things are well hidden even > though they appear to be in plain sight. One particular system that I often > had to log on to, I had written the password on a stickie posted to the front > edge of my monitor. Or so folks thought. ;). And it really was the password > - or would be with the secret offsets applied. That formula was not posted or > shared anywhere, of course. > > Linda > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jan 22, 2013, at 6:32 PM, Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/22/2013 8:19 PM, Scott Ford wrote: >>> Proving we mainframes are a pretty smart bunch ... >> >> Or maybe not? In the late nineties I was working as a contractor at the IRS, >> and one of my coworkers was an elderly gentleman whom I would categorize as >> an old, congenial grandfather. He had a problem remembering things, and >> carried a notebook where he recorded JCL, his job card information, and >> other job related stuff; unfortunately next time he needed the information, >> he seemed to have forgotten that or where he recorded it. He wrote his >> password and user id on a Post-It, stuck to the side of his terminal (PC). >> He used AAA111. When advised that this was a security violation, he removed >> it. The next day I saw a note in his desk drawer with a BBB222 on it. He was >> too young to qualify for Social Security retirement, but might have had a >> chance at disability due to his failing memory. As you might think, he >> didn't last too long at the job. >> >> >> Gerhard Postpischil >> Bradford, Vermont >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
