What are YOU doing this fall?

Yesterday I was looking through the hard drive I'll be cleaning out on an old desktop PC I'll be dropping off at the local electronics recycling bin. When I ran across my old login to the corporate servers where I used to work, I was amazed to find out after 20 years retired that it still worked! I could have done anything I wanted to the servers including wiping the drives or powering everything off. I sent an email to the current CEO suggesting he have a chat with the current systems administrator about system security. I wonder if my old door and alarm system codes still work.
 
i could never have those dreams. once i figured out that the 9-5 jobs could care less about you and they could fire you at anytime and not care!!! i went into business for myself. now i just pay people to do my job...
I suspect they're not the kind of dreams you like to have
 
When I ran across my old login to the corporate servers where I used to work, I was amazed to find out after 20 years retired that it still worked! I could have done anything I wanted to the servers including wiping the drives or powering everything off.
What you probably had was a cached credential on your hard drive. Chances are it let you in locally but if you had tried to reconnect to your old company to inflict your delayed "reign of terror" that it wouldn't connect for multiple reasons.

Congratulations on your memory and being able to recall your 20 year-old credential. Before I retired, our company had implemented password lifetimes of 120 days for general desktop use and separate credentials for elevated privileges broken down by network, desktop, server, database, backup, and Domain. The elevated accounts were controlled by a Password Vault Manager so in the morning we had to "check out" our privileged account for the twelve hours before the password expired. Since the passwords rotated it was nearly impossible to impossible to remember 24 random upper/lower case, numeric, and special characters.
 
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