In 1999, you could log into any Hotmail account with the password “eh”

@depthsofwiki Those dang Canadian programmers

@depthsofwiki Never put a Canadian in charge of security

@depthsofwiki @docsquiddy youtu.be/8egtsFtbhDQ

@depthsofwiki Hundreds of users would have been at risk of having their Geocities pages messed about with

@depthsofwiki So that has to be some programmer purposefully giving himself a backdoor into any account, right? I mean I may or may not have accessed a thing or two back in the day using username “admin” and password “password” to get in, but that was laziness - this seems deliberate.

@depthsofwiki it was a better time

@depthsofwiki @arthur_affect there was also a day when you could just login to any account by leaving the password field blank. oh, and all service reps for any Micr°s°ft products, so tens of thousands of call center peons, had total access to any H°tmail account, just by typing it into their mail tool.

@depthsofwiki @topquark I so hope it was called The Canadien flaw.. eh :)

@depthsofwiki If the 'eh' security flaw was introduced in facial recognition then the facial expression would be

@depthsofwiki Does “eh” = F12?

@depthsofwiki @doctorow

@depthsofwiki Eh?

@depthsofwiki @0xabad1dea never realised hotmail was canadian

@depthsofwiki corollary: in 1999 every Canadian knew every other Canadian's secrets, and therefore thought every other Canadian was telepathic